The latest figures of £1.52m unemployed shows that the Chancellor has failed to provide a stable economic environment for UK businesses to operate in, say leading tax and advisory firm, Blick Rothenberg.
Richard Churchill a business advisory partner at the firm said: “ A succession of short-term measures which were then extended and lack of direction on Brexit and Fiscal policy has created a vacuum within the business environment which is only going to get worse with more job losses being announced
He added: “ It is now time now for the Chancellor to provide a clear plan for 2021 which requires support for the hardest hit businesses and incentives for growth and investment.”
Richard said: “ The October labour market review by the ONS held no surprises and the predicted spike in redundancies appears to have started and is set to continue.
“Whilst the headline number of those out of work and redundancies are below the most recent 2008 recession. There is now clear evidence that the chancellor’s Job Retention Scheme has delayed redundancies not prevented them.”
He added: “ The rate of increase in redundancies is now at its greatest since mid 2009 and includes data only to August 2020 a point at which the Job Retention Scheme was still at its widest and most generous. The acceleration in redundancies commenced from June some months after the start of the crisis and highlights the delaying measure of the Job Retention Scheme. Data in the coming months is likely to show this trend continuing particularly with the Job Retention Scheme ceasing on 31 October.”
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