Lord Watts
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Lord Katz (Lab)
My Lords, as part of the Get Britain Working plan, we are ensuring that there are local growth plans across the economy, because we recognise that different labour markets have different needs, and different populations in the different areas, regions and indeed nations of our country have different profiles and skills levels. We are determined to get the whole country working through a number of different ways, including reforming Jobcentre Plus and creating a new service across Great Britain, bringing together Jobcentre Plus with the National Careers Service in England so that we can move from box-ticking to job-finding.
Lord Watts (Lab)
My Lords, did not the previous Government leave us with a legacy of poverty pay and a lack of training in the workforce, meaning that we have plenty of vacancies but not the skills to fill them? Is that not a disgrace?