Jobs Market: Wider Economic Implications

Debate between Lord McFall of Alcluith and Baroness Sherlock

Thursday 18th December 2025 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Sherlock (Lab)]

I will tell the House what we are going to do about it: something the last Government never did, which is to take seriously the challenge of so many young people in our country who are not in employment, education or training. What did the last Government do about that? They did nothing. What are this Government doing? A huge amount: in the Budget, we have put hundreds of millions of pounds into a youth guarantee. We are creating guaranteed jobs for young people who are long-term unemployed on universal credit, and we have the former Health Secretary, Alan Milburn, digging down deep into what the driving reason is for why so many of our young people are not out there in the labour market. We are going to solve the problems we inherited; we are doing something about it.

[The Lord Speaker (Lord McFall of Alcluith)]

My Lords, I call on the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, who is participating remotely.