Unemployment Rate 2025-02-03
2025-02-03
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Recent trends in the unemployment rate are raising concerns about job cuts and decreased job postings. Reed recruitment has reported a significant drop in job listings.
Following the Budget, it appears that there is not a week that goes by without another employer announcing significant job cuts. Reed recruitment has already announced that job postings are plummeting. What will the Government do to support the Minister’s Department in the situation it will find itself in—a rapidly increasing number of people looking for jobs and a rapidly decreasing number of jobs being posted because of the Government’s policies?
I am glad the hon. Gentleman is bothered by the employment rate and I hope he is bothered by the record of his party, which saw employment fall off a cliff after the pandemic and never recover. We were an outlier in that; it did not happen anywhere else in the world. As it is, our jobcentres see just one in six employers ever consider using them to recruit. We will change that. We have a new strategy. The Secretary of State recently announced our plan to ensure that the Department of Work and Pensions serves businesses and that we get the best jobs into jobcentres so that people can take them up, improve their lives and grow our economy.
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The Minister did not provide specific actions or commitments to address the rising unemployment rate.
Blaming The Previous Government
Highlighting Jobcentre Efforts Without Concrete Details
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