Young People Seeking Employment or Education

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 9 March 2015.

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Photo of Stephen Timms Stephen Timms Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) 2:30, 9 March 2015

I hope the Minister will at least take some note of her own UK Commission for Employment and Skills, which points out that the UK now has German levels of adult unemployment, but eurozone levels of youth unemployment. Some 40% of unemployed people in the UK are under 25. Youth Contract wage incentives failed and were scrapped eight months early last summer. Does she have any new plans to tackle the very high level of youth unemployment—nearly three times the level of adult unemployment—which, as my hon. Friends have rightly pointed out and contrary to what she has been telling us, has gone up in the past couple of months, not down?