If he will make a statement on the role that Jobcentre Plus and the new deals will play in delivering his future employment policies.

Our active labour market policies and the help provided through Jobcentre Plus and the new deals have played a key role in delivering the record employment rates that we have today. We are building on this success by completing the Jobcentre Plus programme, thus ensuring that, across the country, people who can work can take advantage of the job opportunities available.

I, too, welcome the very large cuts in unemployment in my constituency, but as my right hon. Friend will be aware, there are still many people in my constituency and throughout Glasgow who are not economically active, but do want to work. They will require a lot of training and support to do that. Does he agree that, rather than cutting programmes and scrapping services, the Government must remain committed to focusing their policy on ensuring that those people are given the opportunity to enter the work force?

I agree with my hon. Friend that we need to do more, not less. We need to put in more resources, not fewer resources, and we need to ensure, for instance, that the measures set out by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor in his Budget statement are taken forward. That was focused on 16 and 17-year-olds, whom we need to give a new offer based on the success of the education maintenance allowance, broadening the approach to ensure that, in this age group in particular, no young person does not have access to education or, if they are in work, to training and skills enhancement as part of their job. I agree with my hon. Friend that this is an area where we need to do much more.