There are two figures. The government says it is possible to create 220,000 jobs through economic stimulus measures. I do not understand how it arrived at that figure, because, in budget 2009, it gave another figure, 200,000 jobs. Clearly, it looks like the government used a simulation model to arrive at these figures.
It is important for the parliamentary budget officer to closely monitor these figures as they are updated. It is possible that the labour market may be far weaker than estimated in the 2009 budget.