HC Deb 06 March 2001 vol 364 c158W
Mr. Rammell

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answer of 31 January 2001,Official Report, column 213W, on unemployment costs, what the cost is to the Exchequer per unemployed person per year in terms of all forgone taxes where the calculation assumes (a) the person to have been on average earnings and (b) the person to have been on average earnings for the manufacturing sector. [152468]

Mr. Andrew Smith

As the extent to which unemployment affects Government revenues depends on a number of assumptions, in particular the extent to which unemployment reflects permanent changes in output growth, no estimates of the effects of unemployment on taxes forgone are available.