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Join the Work Foundation and a panel of experts to review the labour market statistics and inflation data from the Office for National Statistics, and what it means for workers, businesses and communities ahead of the Spring Budget 2023.

As UK voters prepare to head to the polls in 2024, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has his last opportunity to improve working lives before the election.

Despite falling inflation and rising real wages, workers are feeling poorer as the OBR forecasts wages will not return to 2008 levels until 2028. The UK’s tax burden is at record levels and the Government is under pressure from its own ranks to reduce taxes further ahead of any future election.

Record long-term sickness continues to drive worker shortages and the Government is seemingly considering additional cuts to benefits to ‘get people back to work’. But with limited economic growth forecast, what room does the Government have to support workers and employers? And will adding more conditionality to welfare entitlements really help?

Join the Work Foundation and a panel of experts to review the labour market statistics and inflation data from the Office for National Statistics, and what it means for workers, businesses and communities ahead of the Spring Budget 2024.

Confirmed Speakers

• Zubaida Haque, Deputy Director, Women's Budget Group
• Ben Chu, Economics Editor, Newsnight
• Lord Gavin Barwell, former Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister and former Government Minister
• Hilary Ingham, Professor of Economics, Lancaster University
• Ben Harrison, Director, Work Foundation

Register in advance for this webinar A zoom link will be emailed to you before the event.