Government Employment Strategy

I think that I had finished the point that I was making, but I am sure that, if I repeat myself, hon. Members will bear with me. The Select Committee’s excellent report dwelt in detail on a number of the important issues that need to be dealt with for the Government to meet their targets relating to raising the employment rate. I am referring in particular to issues relating to older people—the over-50s—ethnic minorities, the cities strategy, to which I want to return in detail, and multiple disadvantage, which is, if I may say so, the fundamental burden of the report. That has come out in a number of the speeches that have been made. I do not intend to go into detail on all those matters, because many of the points that I intended to make have been made by members of the Committee. I think that I have made the point, but it is worth repeating that, in looking in total at the way in which the Government— Sitting suspended for a Division in the House. On resuming—