Finance minister Jeremy Hunt will set out measures to boost Britain's workforce next week, by offering financial incentives in his budget for parents with young children, disabled people and others to rejoin the workforce.
that is dragging on its economic performance. Foreign workers left the country en masse over Brexit, while hundreds of thousands of older people gave up their jobs during COVID-19.
It is the only one of the world's seven largest advanced economies whose gross national product remains smaller than before the pandemic., will focus on removing barriers that dissuade people of working age from getting jobs. "I want this back-to-work budget to break down these barriers," Hunt said in a statement from the ministry on Saturday.
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