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HANSARD Place-based Employment Support ProgrammesIt is a pleasure, as always, to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Dr Murrison. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Southport (Patrick Hurley) on securing this…10 Feb 2026HANSARD Youth UnemploymentI will give way to my near neighbour.28 Jan 2026HANSARD Youth UnemploymentNo, I will make some progress. Put simply, the Conservatives cut off opportunity for young people. They wrote them off, and then they blamed young people for the position they…28 Jan 2026HANSARD Youth UnemploymentI am just going to complete the Conservatives’ record, because I think it would be beneficial for us all to hear it. When the Conservatives were chucked out, the youth…28 Jan 2026HANSARD Youth UnemploymentMy hon. Friend has made his point very well indeed. Let me return to the subject of the youth guarantee. There will be guaranteed jobs for about 55,000 people over the three…28 Jan 2026HANSARD Youth UnemploymentI beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “House” to end and insert: “welcomes the Government’s commitment to invest in young people’s futures; notes that the UK has the…28 Jan 2026HANSARD Youth UnemploymentMy hon. Friend is exactly right. That is the kind of initiative that will help deliver for these young people who are out of work, particularly with health problems, health…28 Jan 2026HANSARD Youth UnemploymentI will come on to talk a little about some of the accusations levelled at the Government in relation to national insurance contributions, so I shall deal with that point later in…28 Jan 2026HANSARD Youth UnemploymentNo, I am going to make some progress. We are investing in young people to turn around the dire legacy that the Conservatives left behind. We are supporting young people so that…28 Jan 2026HANSARD Youth UnemploymentI will later on, but I want to get this on the record. We know that if someone falls out of the workforce— [ Interruption. ] The Conservative MPs chuntering from a sedentary…28 Jan 2026HANSARD Youth UnemploymentThose are very wise words from my hon. Friend. I want to say something about employers, because they have a vital role to play in all this. On keeping people in work when they…28 Jan 2026HANSARD Youth UnemploymentI will make some progress, because many Back Benchers want to speak. The skills White Paper sets out our plan to build a more specialised and more efficient higher education…28 Jan 2026HANSARD Youth UnemploymentThe right hon. Gentleman, who is a close neighbour in East Yorkshire, says that I am being partial and only giving part of the picture. I think I have been setting out a very full…28 Jan 2026HANSARD Youth UnemploymentMy hon. Friend has made his case very well. He referred to the £725 million for the growth and skills levy, which is part of the more than £1.5 billion that has been made…28 Jan 2026HANSARDCost of Living: Support for FamiliesWe recognise that too many homes in England struggle to afford heating, and tackling fuel poverty is a Government priority. On 21 January, we published a new fuel poverty…26 Jan 2026HANSARDCost of Living: Support for FamiliesI thank my hon. Friend for his question on this important issue for the Government. Action to support families includes raising the national living wage, expanding access to free…26 Jan 2026HANSARDSupport into Work: Health ConditionsGood work is generally good for health and wellbeing, so we want everyone to get work and get on in work. Through our Pathways to Work guarantee, which is will be backed by £1…26 Jan 2026HANSARDSupport into Work: Health ConditionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for talking about the WorkWell pilot. When I attended a recent WorkWell session in Cambridge, I was really impressed. Following the success of the…26 Jan 2026HANSARDSupport into Work: Health ConditionsThe hon. Gentleman mentions an important scheme that enables people to move into work and stay in work. It is right to say that that there have been some issues with Access to…26 Jan 2026HANSARDSupport into Work: Health ConditionsAs I just set out to the hon. Member for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (David Chadwick), there have been some problems with Access to Work, but it is this Government who are dealing…26 Jan 2026