Baroness Eaton – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Eaton on 2015-10-29.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of how the United Kingdom compares with other European Union member states in terms of the number of jobs created since the start of 2012.

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

Total employment in the UK grew by a larger amount than in any other EU member state during this period, according to Eurostat data. Since quarter one 2012 to quarter two 2015 the employment level in UK has increased by 1.6m. This compares to approximately 826,000 in France, 1.3m in Germany and 101,400 in Spain.