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Written Ministerial Statements — Work and Pensions: Correction to Oral Answer (3 Nov 2009)

Yvette Cooper: During Department for Work and Pensions oral questions on Monday 19 October, in response to a supplementary from the hon. Member for Blackpool, North and Fleetwood, Mrs. J. Humble, I said: "My hon. Friend is right, and we must ensure that we also help young people who have different disabilities and need additional help with different ways into work. She may also be interested to know that...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Yvette Cooper: We have debated this afternoon and this evening how we respond to the first world recession since the second world war, the fall-out from the biggest financial crisis for many generations. We had a range of contributions. The right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) gave us a meandering tour of several decades until he was floored by a question about which regulations he...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Yvette Cooper: I can tell the hon. Gentleman that I listened very carefully to the points that he was making, which I plan to address now, and to many other hon. Members, including those whom I was able to watch on the monitor, as well as those whom I was able to hear directly in the debate. It is hard for companies across the country who are still being affected by the credit crunch. The enterprise finance...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Yvette Cooper: I give way to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, who I hope will clarify that point.

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Yvette Cooper: As the right hon. and learned Gentleman will be aware if he has read the Budget documents, as well as the VAT cut there are the additional public sector capital projects, which are being brought forward to increase and accelerate public sector investment. In addition, there is the £5 billion support for the unemployed, which all the Opposition Members have refused to support. The right...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Yvette Cooper: I am afraid that the right hon. and learned Member continues to be wrong, because we are providing additional support throughout the country for primary schools that are having their repairs done. Furthermore, the £5 billion for the unemployed will include £2.9 billion next year to support the expansion of employment programmes and the expansion in job centres of the number of...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Yvette Cooper: Interestingly, the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe was one of the few people who did, at least temporarily, support the reduction in VAT. The best way to help businesses and jobs right now is to ensure that we act to get the economy growing again as soon as possible. That is what we are doing; that is what we did last year when we stopped the banks going under; that is what the...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Yvette Cooper: The right hon. Gentleman will know that, in fact, the Americans have been affected by the credit crunch and recession for a long time. They have had very serious problems with unemployment, which is higher than it is here, as it is in the average of the EU and OECD countries. We need to do more to keep helping those who are losing their jobs and are affected by the recession. Getting people...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Yvette Cooper: It is deeply disappointing that some local councils are not supporting the future jobs fund. The Conservative leader of the Local Government Association, Margaret Eaton, has said: "The fund for local job creation will help to generate jobs, get local economies moving and help to prevent another 'lost generation' of young unemployed...Councils have thousands of small scale projects on the...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Yvette Cooper: I will give way to the right hon. Lady in the hope that she will now support the future jobs fund and reverse her party's policy.

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Yvette Cooper: I am afraid that the right hon. Lady is simply wrong. In fact, we will increase support for the future jobs fund next year. It is right that we should provide that support at a time when the economy is facing considerable difficulties as a result of the worldwide recession. This is her chance to support that help and those opportunities for young people instead of trying to pull the plug on...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Yvette Cooper: My hon. Friend is right: many of the Conservatives' policies are, sadly, driven by ideology and by an ideological approach that big government is bad and Government action should be withdrawn, even at a time when markets have failed, showing the importance of Government action to support businesses across the country. As a result of the action that we have taken, unemployment is not currently...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Yvette Cooper: Will the right hon. Lady clarify whether she supports the £5 billion that we have put into helping the unemployed this year and next? Yes or no?

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009) has video

Yvette Cooper: Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman confirm that this means that his party's policy is to oppose the £5 billion of additional funding that we are putting in to help the unemployed this year and next, of which £2.9 billion is for the next financial year?

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009) has video

Yvette Cooper: Just to clarify: we have increased the funding by £5 billion this year and next. It is discretionary additional spending funded by additional borrowing, and it is part of the wider support for the economy that the right hon. and learned Gentleman and his party repeatedly oppose. Will he confirm that he is opposed to that £5 billion of additional spending to help the unemployed?

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Youth Unemployment (19 Oct 2009) has video

Yvette Cooper: The youth claimant count rate for September 2009, in the middle of a recession, stands at 5 per cent., the same rate as in September 1997 when the economy was growing. The latest figures show 469,600 18 to 24-year-olds on jobseeker's allowance and 9,800 of them on it over six months. The equivalent figures for September '97 were 385,000 on JSA and 65,000 on it over 12 months, and for...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Youth Unemployment (19 Oct 2009) has video

Yvette Cooper: If the hon. Gentleman wants to discover what the figures are, I refer him to the Office for National Statistics. I should also like to point out to him the situation in the 1990s, before the introduction of the new deal for young people, when more than 200,000 young people were on the dole for over a year at the peak of the then recession. Today, that figure stands at fewer than 10,000 young...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Youth Unemployment (19 Oct 2009) has video

Yvette Cooper: The hon. Gentleman is right that part of the purpose of the Backing Young Britain campaign is to provide young people with support from the very moment they leave education or lose a job, so we can get them back into work as quickly as possible. A range of support is available for young people at all stages. I think it is also right to provide additional support for young people who have been...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Youth Unemployment (19 Oct 2009) has video

Yvette Cooper: The right hon. Lady's claim is nonsense. As I made clear in answer to the previous question, we are increasing support by providing additional help for young people from the very moment when they lose their job or leave education. We are expanding the amount of available training and support, and we are investing more than £1 billion in youth jobs, which Opposition Members still oppose....

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Youth Unemployment (19 Oct 2009) has video

Yvette Cooper: I think young people should be terrified at the prospect of help from the Conservatives, when the right hon. Lady's party continues to propose cutting £5 billion from the support for the unemployed and wants to cut funding to the economy in the middle of a recession, something that Professor Blanchflower, formerly of the Bank of England, says would push unemployment up to 5 million. That...