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HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe youth guarantee scheme will be delivered across Great Britain. That includes the jobs guarantee scheme, which I mentioned earlier. From the spring, we will provide more than…26 Jan 2026HANSARDEmployee HealthBusinesses are a really important partner in supporting workers’ health. This is not an issue just for government. I have seen excellent examples of employers doing this,…26 Jan 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsLet me congratulate my hon. Friend on the fantastic work that he has done in campaigning for the investments in and around his constituency. Major infrastructure investments such…26 Jan 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsI have had a number of discussions, including with victims’ families. It is important to stress that if someone is sentenced to a psychiatric hospital, their care and maintenance…26 Jan 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend will have heard me refer to the youth guarantee being a GB-wide scheme, so it will help people in Scotland. She will agree with me when I point out that the…26 Jan 2026HANSARDWorkWell ExpansionToday, together with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, we are announcing England-wide expansion of the WorkWell service from autumn 2026…20 Jan 2026HANSARDUniversal Credit Entitlement: Offenders Detained in HospitalOur welfare system, through benefits like universal credit, provides a crucial safety net to millions of people across this country but it cannot be right that individuals who…19 Jan 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is right to say that purposeful activity, be it training or work, can be an answer to some of the mental health problems that we are seeing in society, so I welcome…08 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI warmly commend my hon. Friend and the company she mentions. One of the apprenticeship reforms that we have announced is fully funding apprenticeships for SMEs for under-25s.…08 Dec 2025HANSARDSupport for Young PeopleToday I am announcing the expansion of the Government’s youth guarantee and the next phase of the growth and skills levy. This announcement is backed by more than £1.5 billion of…08 Dec 2025HANSARDSafeguarding: Department for Work and PensionsI wish to update the House on the actions my Department has taken following the conclusion of the safeguarding review, and consideration of consultation findings. This fulfils a…08 Dec 2025HANSARDWelfare Spending: Economic ImpactThe Conservative party watched the number of those who are not in education, employment or training grow year by year and did nothing about it. The hon. Lady will find that, at…08 Dec 2025HANSARDWelfare Spending: Economic ImpactWe inherited from the Conservative party a welfare system that forced too many people out of work and on to long-term benefits, while leaving millions of children in poverty. We…08 Dec 2025HANSARDWelfare Spending: Economic ImpactThe hon. Gentleman will find that the welfare budget had risen three times as fast as a proportion of GDP as it is projected to rise under this Government. We have begun to make…08 Dec 2025HANSARDWelfare Spending: Economic ImpactWe have a very different approach to the issue of NEETs from the Conservative party. We are not going to sit and look at the graph rise year by year without offering young people…08 Dec 2025HANSARDWelfare Spending: Economic ImpactThe Conservatives’ zeal for change is very touching; it is just a pity that they only discovered it the day they stopped having any responsibility for running the welfare system.…08 Dec 2025HANSARDWelfare Spending: Economic ImpactIt is estimated that the child poverty strategy we published on Friday will lift more than 500,000 children out of poverty by the end of this Parliament. Critically, most of the…08 Dec 2025HANSARDNEET Young PeopleWhen this Government came to power, we inherited a situation in which almost 1 million young people were not in education, employment or training. As we have said, the number rose…08 Dec 2025HANSARDNEET Young PeopleIf the hon. Gentleman cared about young people and opportunity, he might regret the fact that there was a 40% decline in young people’s apprenticeships over the last decade, when…08 Dec 2025HANSARDNEET Young PeopleMy hon. Friend is right to point out that the issue of youth opportunity is also an issue of inequality, and that the rate of NEETs is often highest where deprivation and…08 Dec 2025