Unemployment

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 7 Chwefror 1995.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Chris Mullin Chris Mullin , Sunderland South 12:00, 7 Chwefror 1995

Has the Secretary of State noticed that, despite all the rhetoric, the level of public spending is the same as the level that his Government inherited from the Labour Government in 1979 and that his party is now the party of high taxation? Might not that be because it is extremely expensive to maintain the best part of 3 million people who are permanently out of work? Does he now regret advocating policies which have led to mass unemployment?