Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Pat McFadden and Kirith Entwistle

Monday 9th March 2026 Commons Chamber

[Pat McFadden]

The hon. Member has posed a very good and important question, and the issue of graduate unemployment is by no means confined to the UK. In the United States, for example, a similar debate about graduate unemployment is taking place. The truth is that structural developments are happening in the labour market. Technology is undergoing a big shift, and I think that all Governments must ask themselves how to help young people through this transition. The one thing that we cannot do is abandon them to it: we have to train people, and we have to ensure that the UK is best placed to take advantage of this big technological shift.

[Kirith Entwistle (Bolton North East) (Lab)]

10. What recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of child poverty in the Bolton North East constituency.