By Reuters | London |
Topics Coronavirus | UK economy | Employment
Britain's government will double the number of its job coaches as part of a plan to tackle a rise in unemployment triggered by the coronavirus lockdown, the finance ministry said on Saturday.
The number of work coaches at British job centres will double to 27,000 at a cost of 800 million pounds ($997 million), the ministry said.
Finance minister Rishi Sunak is due to announce on Wednesday his next steps for steering the world's fifth-biggest economy away from its lockdown slump which caused a 20% contraction in output in April. The.
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