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Will the hon. Lady give way?

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
14 December 2011
Reference
537 c867
House
House of Commons

I will tell the hon. Gentleman what a deception is: it is the Government saying that they will introduce a scheme next April when youth unemployment is going through the roof this month and last month.

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
14 December 2011
Reference
537 c851
House
House of Commons

It is a pleasure to follow the Minister. The statistics I will use are from the Office for National Statistics, but my experience is as a manager of a centre for unemployed people before I came into the House. I saw at first hand the failure of economic policy. That...

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
14 December 2011
Reference
537 c850
House
House of Commons

Of course it is! The hon. Gentleman really needs to look at the ONS statistics. In every corner of the UK, youth unemployment is going up. Young people are facing unemployment because of the Government's record.

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
14 December 2011
Reference
537 c851
House
House of Commons

I shall tell the hon. Gentleman my background in a moment—I certainly know what unemployment is like and have worked with unemployed people—but month on month, people are losing their jobs. Saying that there is hope in future of a scheme—he says it is well thought out, but nobody has...

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
14 December 2011
Reference
537 c851-2
House
House of Commons

I am afraid that I do not have much time; I have already taken two interventions. In the 1980s and 1990s, there was a period of stagnation in my constituency. The gross value added, or the gross domestic product, was among the worst in the United Kingdom. The historical scar...

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
14 December 2011
Reference
537 c852-3
House
House of Commons

The hon. Gentleman says that we did not outline our plans. If he reads the motion, he will find them there, and he should be speaking to the motion. He said two things that were incorrect. He said that we would be spending more than the Government. In the autumn...

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
14 December 2011
Reference
537 c853
House
House of Commons

And the VAT rise?

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
30 November 2011
Reference
536 c1011
House
House of Commons

On the subject of pensioners, was the Secretary of State as disappointed as I was that the Chancellor did not have the guts to mention in his Budget statement that he was reducing the winter fuel allowance from £400 to £300? His decision not to continue with the £400 payments...

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
29 March 2011
Reference
526 c196
House
House of Commons

Before I became a Member I ran a centre for the unemployed during the 1990s, so I know how painful things are for people who are unemployed long term. The hon. Member for Enfield North (Nick de Bois) referred to public sector jobs. Let us make it clear: nurses and...

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
16 February 2011
Reference
523 c979
House
House of Commons

Will the Minister give way?

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
16 February 2011
Reference
523 c1019
House
House of Commons

I, too, have supported apprenticeships over the past decade, and they have been a great success, but companies in my constituency, and one in particular, say to me that they cannot take on apprentices because they are faced with a consumption tax rise of 2.5 percentage points in VAT. Is...

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
16 February 2011
Reference
523 c989
House
House of Commons

That this House notes that the Office of Budget Responsibility forecasts 1.36 million people will be claiming jobseeker's allowance at the start of 2013; further notes that in areas of high unemployment jobseekers are outnumbering job vacancies by more than 10 to one and that it will take longer than...

Primary sponsor
Tom Blenkinsop (Labour)
Type
Early day motions
Date
19 January 2011
Reference
1305
House
House of Commons

The decision on Sheffield Forgemasters may have an impact on nuclear development and indeed on wind development in north Wales, because the casting for those projects would be done in the UK. It is essential for the supply chain of the whole of the United Kingdom, and in particular of...

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
29 June 2010
Reference
512 c207-8WH
House
House of Commons

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for mentioning the energy island concept. North Wales can be a centre of excellence for both aviation and low-carbon energy for the future, building a skills base of transferable, high-level skills, which is what the Government aim to do. With respect to the...

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
29 June 2010
Reference
512 c211-2WH
House
House of Commons

Why not?

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
29 June 2010
Reference
512 c214WH
House
House of Commons

Will the Minister give way?

Member
Albert Owen (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
29 June 2010
Reference
512 c214WH
House
House of Commons