Housing Benefits (18 to 21-year-olds)
Debate between Caroline Nokes and Philip Hollobone(7 years, 10 months ago)
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Caroline Nokes
The hon. Gentleman makes the assumption that this will increase homelessness. In fact, we expect there to be behavioural change and that young people will, where they can, stay living with their parents. Where they cannot stay living with their parents, they will be exempt from this policy.
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
At a time when the public is increasingly fed up with politicians who do not do what they say they will do at election time, may I congratulate my hon. Friend on the audacity of sticking to a Conservative manifesto commitment? Will she confirm that youth unemployment actually continues to fall and that, week by week, more and more young people have the security and dignity of taking a wage back home?
Caroline Nokes
My hon. Friend is right to point out that there are 197,000 more young people in work than there were in 2010. He is right: this policy was a manifesto commitment and it was in the summer Budget of 2015, and we are delivering on that commitment.
Jobcentre Plus Offices: Closure
Debate between Caroline Nokes and Philip Hollobone(8 years ago)
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Caroline Nokes
The consultation that we are carrying out with both our staff and claimants will feed into the equality analysis that we are carrying out.
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
The good news in Kettering is that the number of unemployed people has fallen from more than 2,000 in May 2010 to just over 900 today, and record numbers of local people are in employment. Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the key achievements of hard-working jobcentre staff is to get many people online for the first time, thus improving their employability?
Caroline Nokes
My hon. Friend is exactly right. We should celebrate not only the high number of people in Kettering in work, but the additional skills with which they have been helped by our hard-working work coaches.