Parliamentary search - Government Employment Strategy

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Parliamentary proceeding

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460 c323-62WH

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2006-07

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Department for Work and Pensions

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Westminster Hall

The government's employment strategy. Work and Pensions Select Committee third report in 2 volumes with proceedings, evidence (HC 1649 i-ii 2005-06 not printed separately) and appendices.
Monday, 20 November 2006
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons

The government's employment strategy. Work and Pensions Select Committee first special report - government response to the Committee's third report of session 2006-07 (HC 63).
Wednesday, 25 April 2007
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Andrew Selous | 460 c350-1WH (Link to this contribution) Philosophically, that is an interesting question. I should like the Minister to reflect on it, but, ...

Andrew Selous | 460 c350WH (Link to this contribution) No, absolutely not. There are two issues. I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman was present when ...

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Danny Alexander | 460 c350WH (Link to this contribution) Earlier, the hon. Member for South-West Bedfordshire (Andrew Selous) seemed to suggest that individu...

Danny Alexander | 460 c342WH (Link to this contribution) I think that I had finished the point that I was making, but I am sure that, if I repeat myself, hon...

Danny Alexander | 460 c342WH (Link to this contribution) A critical part of the Government’s strategy to meet the target to increase the number of people in ...

Danny Alexander | 460 c341-2WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to be here. I feel a bit like an intruder because so far all the speakers have been...

Andrew Selous | 460 c348-50WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs. Anderson, and to be back here. I was a membe...

Harry Cohen | 460 c350WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right about Lord Leitch pressing for the skills pledge and the related bargain...

Natascha Engel | 460 c342WH;460 c342-3WH (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the Committee really wanted an apology from the Minister or the Department. We s...

Danny Alexander | 460 c343-8WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention. Perhaps the Minister will, instead, acknowledge the inadequacy ...

Natascha Engel | 460 c333WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend recall our visit to Jobcentre Plus in Newham, where we met three or four women c...

Joan Humble | 460 c333-4WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. If the Government are really serious about adopting a work-...

John Penrose | 460 c334-7WH (Link to this contribution) I want to endorse and to follow up on many of the excellent points already made by my Select Committ...

Natascha Engel | 460 c337-41WH (Link to this contribution) I am absolutely delighted that the Select Committee has secured this debate. This is one of the many...

John Penrose | 460 c331WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my Select Committee colleague. On a point arising from what she said, in the existing statis...

Joan Humble | 460 c331-2WH (Link to this contribution) That intervention has highlighted to the Minister the sort of detail that the Select Committee went ...

Greg Mulholland | 460 c332WH (Link to this contribution) rose—

Joan Humble | 460 c332WH (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman, another colleague.

Greg Mulholland | 460 c332WH (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely with the hon. Lady, my Select Committee colleague, on the fundamentally important...

Joan Humble | 460 c332-3WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman anticipates a point that I shall come to. As part of an employment strategy, in d...

Joan Humble | 460 c331WH (Link to this contribution) I give way to my Select Committee colleague.

Joan Humble | 460 c330-1WH (Link to this contribution) I wholeheartedly endorse everything that the Chairman of the Select Committee, my hon. Friend the Me...

John Penrose | 460 c331WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady give way?

Andrew Selous | 460 c328WH (Link to this contribution) I am particularly interested in the hon. Gentleman’s story about the flexibility that personal advis...

Terry Rooney | 460 c328-30WH (Link to this contribution) We need to say two things about New Zealand. First, they have what is called a ““work first”” approa...

Natascha Engel | 460 c326WH (Link to this contribution) It was even more interesting to see the Government response to that point. They said that the issue ...

Terry Rooney | 460 c326-8WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, as is evidenced by the contradiction between the Government resp...

John Penrose | 460 c325WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is putting the Committee’s case eloquently. Does he agree that one of our other c...

Terry Rooney | 460 c325-6WH (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether I would go as far as to say that such people have been left in the lurch, but ...

Terry Rooney | 460 c324-5WH (Link to this contribution) There are two issues there. Leitch focused on upskilling people who are in work. To that extent, the...

Terry Rooney | 460 c323-4WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome this opportunity to debate our report on the Government’s employment strategy and the Gove...

Joan Humble | 460 c324WH (Link to this contribution) When we discussed the Leitch report, we did so from the point of view of those out of work. Does my ...

Jim Murphy | 460 c362WH (Link to this contribution) I know that Members would thank me if we were to finish before five minutes to 6, Mrs. Anderson, but...

Jim Murphy | 460 c362WH (Link to this contribution) I thank you, Mrs. Anderson, and my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, North. The city strategy is...

Speaker | 460 c362WH (Link to this contribution) Go ahead, Minister.

Terry Rooney | 460 c362WH (Link to this contribution) I am happy to leave it on this occasion.

Speaker | 460 c362WH (Link to this contribution) Does the Chairman of the Committee wish to speak after the Minister?

Jim Murphy | 460 c362WH (Link to this contribution) Mrs. Anderson, would it be possible for me to take one minute to conclude my remarks? That way, we w...

Speaker | 460 c362WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I shall suspend the sitting for 15 minutes for a Division in the main Chamber.

Andrew Selous | 460 c357-8WH (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that unemployment among 18 to 24-year-olds now stands at 518,000, a rise of 15,00...

Jim Murphy | 460 c355-7WH (Link to this contribution) Mrs. Anderson, I thank you for chairing this debate, which has been well informed. That reflects the...

Andrew Selous | 460 c359WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for drawing the attention of the House to that point. He said that eth...

Jim Murphy | 460 c358-9WH (Link to this contribution) There is no complacency on the Labour Benches about what more needs to be done on welfare reform in ...

Andrew Selous | 460 c351-3WH (Link to this contribution) Then I wonder whether he came across the excellent family relationship centres that exist throughout...

Danny Alexander | 460 c351WH (Link to this contribution) I’ve been.

Andrew Selous | 460 c353-5WH (Link to this contribution) That figure is correct, although it does not really matter who said it; we just need to look at the ...

Danny Alexander | 460 c353WH (Link to this contribution) While the hon. Gentleman is on that point, perhaps he is aware of comments made by one of the Minist...

Andrew Selous | 460 c361-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure the Minister is aware that we have another 25 minutes. I would not want him to rush his re...

Jim Murphy | 460 c359-61WH (Link to this contribution) I think that the analysis takes account of all the trends in the labour market. The fact is that it ...

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Department for Work and Pensions

Employment

Education

Employment schemes

Ethnic groups

Job creation

Minority groups

Lone parents

Social security benefits

Training

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