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Alison McGovern

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Overseas Aid (Private Sector Contracts)
Monday 11th March 2013

(11 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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According to the ILO measure, 974,000 young people are unemployed, about 300,000 of whom are full-time students. Over the past few months there has been an increase of 66,000 in the number of young people in work.

Alison McGovern Portrait Alison McGovern (Wirral South) (Lab)
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The Minister mentioned the so-called 1 million new jobs. With reference to the labour force survey, will he tell me how many of those so-called new jobs arise from reclassification and how many represent people who are under-employed?

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If the hon. Lady looks at the labour force survey, she will see that the figure is 1 million net new jobs. She talks about people being under-employed. I hope that she is not being condescending to those of her constituents and mine who are working part-time and want to work part-time.

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