Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton and Lord Stunell

Wednesday 21st November 2012 Commons Chamber

[The Prime Minister]

The Government strongly support the growth in apprenticeships, and we have seen something like 1 million new apprenticeships under this Government. I know that housing benefit is a very important issue, but there is a problem, which needs proper attention: we seem to give some young people a choice today, in that if they are on jobseeker’s allowance they can have access to housing benefit, but if they are living at home and trying to work they cannot. We need to recognise that in many cases we are sending a negative signal to young people through our welfare system.

[Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove) (LD)]

Is it still the Prime Minister’s intention that this should be the greenest Government ever?

[The Prime Minister]

Yes, it is. It is this Government who, in record time, have established a Green Investment Bank that is now in Edinburgh and starting to make loans.