UK-EU Common Understanding Negotiations

Ben Coleman Excerpts

Wednesday 17th December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Nick Thomas-Symonds]

One hundred per cent. It is this Labour Government who are delivering for our young people.

[Ben Coleman (Chelsea and Fulham) (Lab)]

I congratulate the Minister as heartily as everyone else has on bringing the UK back into Erasmus and ensuring that people from all backgrounds, including university students, can once again enjoy the opportunities that the Tory Brexit took away. Part of my Chelsea and Fulham constituency ranks among the 12th most deprived areas in the United Kingdom. I am looking forward, I should tell the Minister, to helping the young people there to seize the new opportunities. May I encourage the Minister to also be ambitious in concluding a youth experience scheme, which would further restore the opportunities that our young people deserve?

[Nick Thomas-Symonds]

Absolutely. Indeed, by the time of the next UK-EU summit, we hope to have concluded negotiations on the linking of our emissions trading systems, on the food and drink agreement, and on the youth experience scheme.