Results 1-20 of 128 for workfare

Jobs and Business (10 May 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Julie Hilling: ...like to boast that they have created over 1 million new jobs, but they do not tell us how many of those jobs are a direct transfer from the public sector or how many are unpaid. Unbelievably, workfare jobs, where people work for their dole, are counted as jobs created. Despite the Secretary of State’s denial, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility unpaid work experience...

Home Affairs (9 May 2013)

Toby Perkins: ...the confusion on immigration is. People are concerned that UK workers are undercut in the jobs market and that the Government turn a blind eye to abuses of the minimum wage. Indeed, with their workfare policy, they seem as keen as ever to send out the message that people should be grateful for what they get and to push more workers into poverty. People are concerned that foreign workers,...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Workfare (15 April 2013)

Mark Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the total cost to the public purse was of historic Court of Appeal cases in respect of Workfare in terms of (a) legal bills and (b) compensation to claimants affected by judgment; and how many claimants were affected in each case.

Ways and Means — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (22 March 2013)

Mary Glindon: ...against it, and have contacted me with their serous concerns about the Government’s actions. However, a Government who will stoop so low as to take rightful benefits from claimants and force jobseekers into workfare are unlikely to have any conscience when it comes to making deeper cuts and causing further hardship to the worst-off in society. Moreover, as millions of the poorest...

Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill — Second Reading (21 March 2013)

Lord Bach: ...comments made by two other organisations outside of this House. I certainly would not agree with the philosophy of one of those organisations because it is a campaigning group called Boycott Workfare. It puts the case about this prospective Bill rather differently from the Constitution Committee, but the implication is the same: "This is almost unbelievably disgusting ... [DWP] broke the...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (21 March 2013)

Julie Hilling: It is not clear how many unpaid, workfare jobs are counted as being among the jobs created. Clearly, they are not jobs created if people are working for nothing. How many of the jobs are like that?

Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill: New Clause 1 — Report (19 March 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

John McDonnell: ...for allowing us at least to have some debate today to expose the regime that the Government have introduced. I also want to thank the two organisations that have launched a week of action: Boycott Workfare and the Right to Work campaign. They are campaigning around the country to expose what companies are doing to exploit unpaid labour; the threats to benefits; and the harassment that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill (19 March 2013) See 9 other results from this debate

Grahame Morris: ..., who have been illegally sanctioned, of large chunks of their income. It is outrageous, and it is rank hypocrisy for anyone to talk about rights with the emphasis on responsibility when it comes to workfare. If they are willing to undermine the judiciary and the rule of law, and vote for retrospective legislation to cover up the mistakes and failings of the Minister, who is asking that we...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty) (27 February 2013)

Helen Goodman: ...for five days in that week, and I was completely lethargic and exhausted by 4 pm. Some people are on jobseeker’s allowance and are looking for a job. Looking for a job is a job in itself; it takes time and energy. The people whom DWP Ministers want to do workfare are being expected to work 30 hours a week, yet they are not going to have enough to eat properly. Most shocking of all...

Opposition Day — [17th( )Allotted Day] — Horsemeat (12 February 2013)

John McDonnell: ...Court ruled that the Government’s Jobseeker’s Allowance (Employment, Skills and Enterprise Scheme) Regulations 2011 are unlawful. The regulations forced people into unpaid work—workfare—and, if they refused that work as unsuitable in assisting them in gaining employment, they lost their benefits. This morning the regulations were declared unlawful. At midday, the...

Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill — Second Reading (Continued) (11 February 2013)

Lord Wigley: ...be beneficial also for the deprived parts of northern England which, like Wales, are suffering from ineffective economic policies. Wales needs job-creating levers to improve our economy, not handouts and workfare. That is why it is essential that the powers recommended by part 1 of the Silk Commission are implemented as soon as possible. Real work and training is what is needed, not...

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Clause 1 — Up-rating of certain social security benefits for tax years 2014-15 and 2015-16 (21 January 2013)

Caroline Lucas: ...or two benefits, such as employment and support allowance and maternity benefit, for proper protection. They have ignored, for example, those on jobseeker’s allowance, as long as some sort of workfare system is brought in for people who have been looking for work for two years. Do the Opposition think that it is okay for the link to be broken for JSA recipients in the meantime? The...

Oral Answers to Questions — Attorney-General: Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill (8 January 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Julie Hilling: ...will not grow the economy; it will simply make it worse. The Government boast that they are creating jobs but fail to tell us how many of those jobs are unpaid, because unbelievably they are including unpaid workfare placements in the figure for jobs created. They are silent on the number of those jobs that are under 16 hours a week, and they do not tell us how many of these so-called new...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Income Tax (28 November 2012)

David Anderson: ...fair to make people work longer, pay more and receive less for their pension. They think it is fair to slash people’s living standards, fair to force young people to go to work for nothing on workfare schemes, and fair to treble the cost of going to university. But now the Government also think it is fair to do other things. They think it is fair to tell 4.5 million pensioners that...

[Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] — Economy (North-East) (13 November 2012)

Ian Lavery: ...a lot better. On a positive note, Bernicia Group and AkzoNobel have relocated to Ashington, which is great news— 600 jobs, new skills, high technologies and proper apprenticeships, not workfare. It is essential. On another positive note, I am absolutely delighted that Northumberland college is creating strong links with local schools and colleges and our excellent universities in the...

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Unemployment: Statistics (23 October 2012) See 1 other result from this answer

Tom Blenkinsop: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office whether the Office for National Statistics defines people in unpaid workfare-style programmes as being employed in its Labour Market Statistics.

“Group 12 — Caravans: New Clause 13 — Bank bonus tax (3 July 2012)

Ian Lavery: ...be able to create any employment, for young people in particular. The Work programme started only a year later, in June 2011, and we all know now, from people coming to our surgeries, about the difficulties that the workfare and other programmes have created. That is why we are calling for Labour’s youth jobs guarantee, which would redress the Government’s scrapping of the...

Work Experience (13 March 2012)

Harriett Baldwin: ...in the form of a media guide, as it were. I hope the Minister will confirm my understanding of the categories. The three that get most confused are Work Experience programme, the Work programme and workfare. My experience of the media confusion came when, like my hon. Friend the Member for Great Yarmouth (Brandon Lewis), who is a colleague on the Select Committee on Work and Pensions, I...

Business of the House (1 March 2012) See 1 other result from this debate

Harriett Baldwin: ...work experience programme for young people, may we have a debate on this topic so that certain sections of the media, which seem to be confused about voluntary work experience for young people, workfare and the Work programme can be enlightened?

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Apprentices (1 March 2012)

Barry Sheerman: ...in agriculture, with every farmer taking on more apprentices and everyone in the environmental sector around the country taking on apprentices. We need more young people to have jobs. Although the workfare scheme has run into problems, it is wrong for young people to be unemployed and on benefit. If there is anything she can do to help, will she please do it?