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Employment

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

483 c619-32 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

John Battle | 483 c631-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. Will he ensure that the rapid response service goes for ...

Nigel Griffiths | 483 c629 (Link to this contribution) May I tell my right hon. Friend that in Edinburgh, South in 1997, 2,037 people were languishing on t...

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James Purnell | 483 c619-21 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement on employment. Unemployment began ris...

Andy Slaughter | 483 c630 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his announcement that planned jobcentre closures, including t...

Lord Brady of Altrincham | 483 c632 (Link to this contribution) More than 250,000 young people have already been through the new deal twice, and 80,000 have been th...

Joan Walley | 483 c630 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement on the extra measures that the Secretary of State has taken. However, the mo...

James Purnell | 483 c626 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right that the new deal has had a fundamental effect on unemployment. It has...

Gerald Kaufman | 483 c625 (Link to this contribution) As the Member of Parliament whose constituency under the Conservatives was No. 1 in Great Britain fo...

Paul Rowen | 483 c624 (Link to this contribution) May I also thank the Secretary of State for giving notice of his statement? I also welcome the morat...

James Purnell | 483 c624-5 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will welcome the fact that it is actually 25 Jobcentre Plus office...

Terry Rooney | 483 c623-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement today, but does he agree that it is as important to keep ...

James Purnell | 483 c624 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that my hon. Friend welcomes that report and the Government's response to it, and he is ri...

Lord Grayling | 483 c621-3 (Link to this contribution) May I start by thanking the Secretary of State for an advance copy of his statement? I listened with...

James Purnell | 483 c623 (Link to this contribution) That was absolute confirmation that the Tories are now the do nothing party. We are offering real he...

James Purnell | 483 c627-8 (Link to this contribution) That is the opposite of what we are doing. We are making the automatic stabilisers work even better....

Lord Swire | 483 c626 (Link to this contribution) Like so often, the headline announcements by the Government do not bear close examination. It is all...

James Purnell | 483 c626-7 (Link to this contribution) There was a similar scepticism when the then Chancellor, who is now the Prime Minister, announced lo...

David Winnick | 483 c627 (Link to this contribution) In the 1980s the west midlands was devastated by unemployment. Does not today's statement demonstrat...

James Purnell | 483 c627 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, of course. What he will see from this Government is real action, as I said....

Adam Price | 483 c627 (Link to this contribution) On the brink of the biggest economic downturn the world has seen since the 1930s, does it make sense...

James Purnell | 483 c626 (Link to this contribution) I can give a guarantee that we will provide the service that people need. That is our commitment. We...

Alan Simpson | 483 c626 (Link to this contribution) It seems perverse that at a time when there has been a severe contraction in the construction indust...

James Purnell | 483 c626 (Link to this contribution) I can give that guarantee. Indeed, one of the things that we have discussed is how we can ensure tha...

John Penrose | 483 c626 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has announced a national employment partnership, a group to be chaired by the...

Mark Pritchard | 483 c629 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State questioned the statement, made by my hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewe...

James Purnell | 483 c630 (Link to this contribution) As I understand it, the Office for National Statistics has made it clear that three quarters of jobs...

James Purnell | 483 c630 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend and other colleagues who have campaigned so hard for thi...

Christopher Fraser | 483 c629 (Link to this contribution) Unemployment in my constituency has risen by 21 per cent. in the past year. Jobs have been lost in t...

James Purnell | 483 c629 (Link to this contribution) There is a £12 billion stimulus to the economy, and we very much hope that that will help the hon. G...

Angela C Smith | 483 c629 (Link to this contribution) People in Chapeltown in my constituency will be very relieved today to hear that their jobcentre is ...

James Purnell | 483 c629 (Link to this contribution) We are certainly happy to consider that. As my hon. Friend knows, we are rolling out a new approach ...

Bob Spink | 483 c630 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement and thank the Secretary of State for all that he is trying to do. Many thous...

James Purnell | 483 c630 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The £100 million is there to get to people even before they lose their jobs. People may ...

James Purnell | 483 c628 (Link to this contribution) Yes.

Peter Bone | 483 c628-9 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State tell us what the following constituencies have in common: Birmingham, Hod...

James Purnell | 483 c628 (Link to this contribution) How would cutting back public spending now, in the middle of a downturn, improve the economic situat...

Judy Mallaber | 483 c628 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that Belper jobcentre is staying open, because although it is the constituency of West ...

James Purnell | 483 c628 (Link to this contribution) The rapid response service will be available to any company, making whatever level of redundancy, if...

Nicholas Winterton | 483 c628 (Link to this contribution) Aearo Technologies, a subsidiary of 3M, based in Poynton in my constituency, is taking 90 jobs to Po...

Sandra Osborne | 483 c628 (Link to this contribution) May I inform the Secretary of State that I was a marcher on the people's march for jobs in 1983, whe...

James Purnell | 483 c629 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and judging by the comments of the shadow Health Secretary, it seems that t...

James Purnell | 483 c629 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure what the hon. Gentleman's question was, but the facts are that unemployment hit 3 mill...

James Purnell | 483 c632 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely can give my right hon. Friend that guarantee. That is exactly what the rapid response s...

Christopher Chope | 483 c631 (Link to this contribution) The Government were very sympathetic to workers at JCB who accepted a reduction in pay in order to t...

James Purnell | 483 c631 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. We depend, of course, on employers telling us when a vacancy has been fill...

James Purnell | 483 c631 (Link to this contribution) I think that we saw some Members nodding at that. That exposes the true face of the Conservatives, w...

Oliver Heald | 483 c630-1 (Link to this contribution) Does not the Secretary of State's announcement of a major increase in spending on the flexible new d...

James Purnell | 483 c630 (Link to this contribution) We are happy to consider how we can deliver the service. As my hon. Friend knows, we have modernised...

Lindsay Hoyle | 483 c631 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement made by my right hon. Friend today. However, will he look into a particular ...

James Purnell | 483 c631 (Link to this contribution) Unemployment has fallen by three quarters since 1997. We do not predict unemployment levels. Obvious...

James Purnell | 483 c632 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, we use a range of scenarios and base our plans on that approach. I can give my hon. Friend ...

John McDonnell | 483 c632 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the additional 6,000 staff in the jobcentres. Was that figure calculated on the basis of a...

James Purnell | 483 c632 (Link to this contribution) The National Institute of Economic and Social Research, an independent organisation, has said that i...

Subjects

Employment Government assistance Jobcentre Plus Job creation Pensioners Redundancy New deal schemes Unemployment Social security Training Local employment partnerships

Contains statistics

Yes

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