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HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right about the important role of FE colleges, which is why I was pleased in the last Budget to invest billions over this Parliament to improve…07 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI should be very happy to.07 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy right hon. Friend speaks on these matters with extreme authority and experience, and I thank him for all his engagement on them with me and others. He is right to want to make…07 Sept 2021HANSARDEnd of Universal Credit UpliftThe hon. Gentleman talks about those in poverty. The statistics most recently published show that 200,000 fewer people are living in absolute poverty in the United Kingdom than…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHelping Young People into Work: Covid-19My right hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I want to thank him for two things. First, when he was a Minister he created traineeships, and he will be pleased to know that this…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHelping Young People into Work: Covid-19It is absolutely right that we remain relentlessly focused on helping young people into work, and our plan for jobs does exactly that with a range of initiatives. I would just…07 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhat people know they get from this Conservative Government is a Government who are on their side, a Government who are delivering their priorities, whether their priority is…07 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the hon. Lady for raising that important point. I would be very happy to make sure that it is considered as part of the spending review.07 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI will be brief, Mr Speaker. When the hon. Lady was appointed shadow Chancellor, she went out of her way to say that any policies that the Labour party put forward on her watch…07 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsOver a year ago, the Government launched their plan for jobs, a comprehensive and ambitious plan to help people back into work to earn more and to gain the skills they need to…07 Sept 2021HANSARDEnd of Universal Credit UpliftThe Government have always been clear that the £20 increase to universal credit was a temporary measure, much like furlough and our other interventions to support this country…07 Sept 2021HANSARDNew Infrastructure InvestmentMy hon. Friend is right. He has previously highlighted the importance of unlocking pension fund capital to invest in long-term assets such as infrastructure in the UK. He will…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHelping Young People into Work: Covid-19I am always happy to look at what more we can do to improve the transparency of our statistics. However, with regard to kickstart in aggregate, I would just say that there have…07 Sept 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThat is absolutely not right. When it comes to the super deduction, what the Labour party will never understand is that we want to support businesses to create jobs. That is what…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHelping Young People into Work: Covid-19Talking about young people and financial services, I was recently in Glasgow talking about young people starting exactly what the hon. Gentleman described: new apprenticeships in…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHelping Young People into Work: Covid-19I point the hon. Lady to the Prime Minister’s speech on skills last year when he unveiled this Government’s lifetime skills guarantee, which delivers exactly what she is asking…07 Sept 2021HANSARDNew Infrastructure InvestmentFrom the Office for Budget Responsibility to the Bank of England, many people have described the super deduction as doing exactly what my hon. Friend has said, and that is why we…07 Sept 2021HANSARDNew Infrastructure InvestmentMy entire team meet the regional Mayors all the time, and of course we will do so in the run-up to the spending review and the Budget. I agree with the hon. Lady that intra-city…07 Sept 2021HANSARDNew Infrastructure InvestmentI am not sure that I entirely recognise the aggregate picture that the hon. Gentleman presents. Rail investment over the course of this Parliament is at record levels, under…07 Sept 2021HANSARDEnd of Universal Credit UpliftOf course there are people already in work who are on universal credit, but our plan for jobs helps them too. We increased the national living wage this year by an…07 Sept 2021