Here's a question: why do the government keep talking about their £30bn Plan for Jobs? Therese Coffey does it again today in the Times Red Box, but I'm intrigued as to where the figure they're using to 'to help people get back into work' comes from. 1/4 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/our-plan-for-jobs-is-a-plan-for-everyone-xdqxxzqmp

The Government published their £30bn Plan for Jobs last July. But that included the £9.6bn it allocated for the Job Retention Bonus. Which has since been (rightly) scrapped. They can't still surely be including it? 2/4 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/898421/A_Plan_for_Jobs__Web_.pdf

If you took out the Job Retention Bonus, that makes July's Plan for Jobs worth £20bn, which also included the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, infrastructure spending, the temporary stamp duty cut, and the Green Homes Grant amongst other things. 3/4

We've had a CSR since then of course, and you could include things like the £2.9bn Restart scheme to try to get to £30bn. But if you're doing that, why use the same headline figure you were using in July? I don't understand! 4/4