Employment: New Jobs Debate
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Countess of Mar
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(10 years, 11 months ago)
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Lord Freud
My Lords, we have a widely spread recovery, which is touching all the regions, as I said. To pick up a point that I may not have dealt with adequately, these are full-time jobs. More full-time jobs have been created over the past year than total jobs; in other words, we are reducing very slightly the number of part-time jobs, if that is the full-time equivalent. This is a widely spread recovery of jobs—long-term jobs, female jobs, regional jobs, young jobs. This is good news.
The Countess of Mar (CB)
My Lords, would the Minister care to comment on the report in today’s press that British apprenticeships are being advertised in Romania?