Budget April 2009

Mr. Philip Hammond
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he made at the time of Budget 2009 of the number of jobs supported as a consequence of his Department’s (a) discretionary fiscal policy and (b) quantitative easing measures.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry
On 4 November 2009, HM Treasury published a paper setting out the estimated effect on employment of discretionary economic stimulus put in place since November 2008 see “Employment impact of Government interventions”:

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/foi_economic_stimulus.htm