Youth Unemployment

Debate between Liam Byrne and Henry Smith

Wednesday 9th November 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Byrne]

What the hon. Gentleman’s constituents want to know is what this Government are doing for unemployed people in his constituency now. He might like to live in the past; his constituents want to know what he is doing for them today.

[Henry Smith (Crawley) (Con)]

One of the things this Government can do, and are doing, is to provide more apprenticeship places. Does the right hon. Gentleman welcome, as I do, the 70% rise in apprenticeship places in Crawley that has just been announced?