Jobs and the Unemployed

Part of Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day] – in the House of Commons at 2:40 pm on 7 July 2010.

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Photo of Richard Graham Richard Graham Conservative, Gloucester 2:40, 7 July 2010

Does the hon. Lady agree that one of the challenges for the future jobs fund is that, because the placements last only six months and have been taken up almost entirely by the public and charitable sectors, they do not provide future jobs? I have spoken to several charitable organisations in Gloucester, just as she has in her constituency. They have got people doing things very similar to what she has just described. They make the same points that she does, but they recognise that these are not apprenticeships. They are different: they do not provide jobs, but really just take people off the unemployment register for six months.