FOI release
Opposition policy costings: internal correspondence
Release of internal correspondence on the costing of opposition policies, relating to the 3 published costings (a jobs guarantee for young people, a jobs guarantee for those aged 25+, and achieving a current budget surplus by 2020/21).
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Request
- Any internal correspondence between officials and with special advisers, relating to the costing of opposition policies which have been published on 51²è¹Ý, excluding the published notes themselves. This relates to the costing of: * the estimated cost to the Exchequer of creating a full-time job for six months paid at the minimum wage for all people aged 25 and over unemployed for over two years * the estimated cost to the Exchequer of creating a full-time job for six months paid at the minimum wage for all young people unemployed for over a year * achieving a current budget surplus by the end of the next Parliament (2020/21)
- The text of the original Freedom of Information request, the response to which was published on 51²è¹Ý on 30 January 2014, and details of when the original request was received by the department.
Disclosure
- internal email correspondence about the creation and clearance of the published costings
- text of original Freedom of Information Act request and clarification of that request
Updates to this page
Published 4 March 2014