Chancellor stresses labour market difficulties are 'too big' to 'hang around' for better ONS statistics

Economic Affairs Committee hearing

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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the scale of the challenges with the Office of National Statistics' (ONS) labour market figures is “so big”, that the government should not “hang around” for better statistics.

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