Employment: New Jobs

Countess of Mar Excerpts
Monday 27th January 2014

(10 years, 3 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Freud Portrait Lord Freud
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My Lords, we have a widely spread recovery, which is touching all the regions, as I said. To pick up a point that I may not have dealt with adequately, these are full-time jobs. More full-time jobs have been created over the past year than total jobs; in other words, we are reducing very slightly the number of part-time jobs, if that is the full-time equivalent. This is a widely spread recovery of jobs—long-term jobs, female jobs, regional jobs, young jobs. This is good news.

Countess of Mar Portrait The Countess of Mar (CB)
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My Lords, would the Minister care to comment on the report in today’s press that British apprenticeships are being advertised in Romania?

Lord Freud Portrait Lord Freud
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My Lords, I cannot control where people advertise anything.