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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 11 May 2009.

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Photo of Ann Winterton Ann Winterton Conservative, Congleton 2:30, 11 May 2009

May I pick up a point made by Mr. Field? Given the current background of large increases in the number of redundancies and the lowest number of job vacancies coming on to the market since records began in 2001, will the Minister ensure that the newly unemployed receive the maximum possible assistance, that they are treated sensitively, that they are encouraged to widen their choice of jobs, and that it is pointed out to them very firmly that it is easier to improve one's position when one is in employment—that is, to move from one job to another—than to obtain one's first job from a position of unemployment?