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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Tristram Hunt Excerpts
Monday 9th September 2013

(11 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. The Education Secretary’s study will be complete when he recognises that it is not appropriate to name Members in the Chamber. I know he has been here only eight years. He will get there eventually.

Tristram Hunt Portrait Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central) (Lab)
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Nearly 1 million young people are unemployed in this country and school leavers are desperate to make the right decisions about their futures, yet, as the Chair of the Education Committee has pointed out, the Government are overseeing the destruction of professional careers advice for 14 to 16-year-olds. Why does the Government’s National Careers Service make 17 times as many interventions for adults as it makes for young people? Does the Secretary of State really believe that his careers strategy is delivering for today’s schoolchildren?