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Debate between Esther McVey and Sarah Newton
Monday 1st September 2014

(10 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Esther McVey Portrait Esther McVey
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It seems that only the Labour party is still calling for incentive schemes and guarantee schemes. Even Europe is now saying what a good job the UK is doing on youth unemployment and looking at how we are moving forward. We had a wage incentive scheme, but that has stopped because we are moving the money into other areas where it is needed more. That is the right thing to do—spending the money where it will be used most effectively and efficiently. As I said, we have had the greatest annual number of young people going into work since records began.

Sarah Newton Portrait Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth) (Con)
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14. What progress his Department has made on its Disability Confident campaign.