Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Kanishka Narayan and Alison McGovern

Monday 16th December 2024 Commons Chamber

[Alison McGovern]

I have brought forward proposals to get Britain working, together with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the Secretary of State for Education, and Secretaries of State right across Government. That is how we will plot a course towards our ambition of an 80% employment rate. I thank the shadow Secretary of State for being kind enough to refer to our “Get Britain Working” plans as

“rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic”.

It was very brave of her to acknowledge that the last Government’s legacy for us was a sinking ship.

[Kanishka Narayan (Vale of Glamorgan) (Lab)]

2. What recent estimate she has made of the number of people who will be supported into work through the proposals outlined in the “Get Britain Working” White Paper.