Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 1 April 2009.
Jim Devine
Labour, Livingston
11:30,
1 April 2009
As my right hon. Friend knows, during the 1980s I worked as part of a primary care psychiatric team. I watched doctors prescribing antidepressants and Valium when they could have prescribed a job—if there had been jobs, people would not have been near the health service. Will he assure me that we do not believe that high unemployment is a price worth paying and that we will invest to ensure that we will not abandon a generation to Valium, videos and vodka?