Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Oral Answers to Questions

Charlie Elphicke Excerpts
Tuesday 11th March 2014

(10 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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When the last Government were in office, unemployment among young people rose by 45%, so we are not going to listen to any ideas that Labour Members may have about it. The best way of cutting unemployment, whether long-term or otherwise, is to establish a growing economy that creates jobs. In the last four years, our economy has seen 1.3 million jobs created, and more people employed than at any other time in history.

Charlie Elphicke Portrait Charlie Elphicke (Dover) (Con)
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Youth unemployment in Dover and Deal has fallen by 25% in the last year, having increased by 50% in the last Parliament. Does that not show that it is important for us not just to have a long-term economic plan that is working but to do more to repair the damage done by the last Labour Government?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We need to stick to our long-term plan to ensure that we have a growing economy that creates jobs and gives people the financial stability that they need, and the biggest risk to that plan would be our adoption of Labour’s policies of more borrowing, more spending and more debt.