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The Committee visited Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, which experiences some of the highest levels of economic inactivity due to long-term illness in Scotland, to see how employability services are being implemented to support people into the labour market.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 December 2021
However, if you are doing exactly the same thing but are caring for someone else’s dad as a paid job, you are economically active. How do we square what we view as economic activity or inactivity?
New and inactive organisations The tables on the following pages show that from 13 June 2021 – 12 June 2022: • 82 new organisations were registered • 20 organisations were made inactive A total of 113 organisations had been made ‘inactive’ by 12 June 2022.
That is something that the Scottish Government has to address as well. It cannot all be focused on getting the inactive people active; it needs alswo to be about how we can make sure that people who are currently active stay active.