Oral Answers to Questions

John Bercow Excerpts

Tuesday 14th May 2013 Commons Chamber

[Richard Graham (Gloucester) (Con)]

rose—

[Mr Speaker]

No, Gloucester is a long way from the north-east of England.

[Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock) (Con)]

Q7. What fiscal steps he is taking to support private sector job creation.

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[Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East) (Lab)]

Is the Minister familiar with the universal jobmatch website created by one of his colleagues in the Department for Work and Pensions? If he has looked at the nature of the jobs being advertised there, he will have seen that in my area, 57 out of 76 advertised shop vacancies were for one company, operating all over the east of Scotland, which wanted people to work on a self-employed basis, distributing catalogues and selling things from them—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I do apologise to the hon. Lady, but we must press on. There is a lot to get through. We need short questions and brief answers.

[Sajid Javid]

In the last decade of the previous Government, youth unemployment rocketed by more than 70%, so the hon. Lady is in no position to lecture this Government on jobs. In three years, 1.25 million private sector jobs have been created, more people are now employed in the private sector than at any other time in our history and we had a faster rate of job growth last year than the rest of the G7.