Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Julie Hilling Excerpts
Monday 23rd May 2011

(12 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Julie Hilling Portrait Julie Hilling (Bolton West) (Lab)
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How will the Minister consult young people about the changes to the careers and Connexions service, as he has a statutory duty to do?

John Hayes Portrait Mr Hayes
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The hon. Lady will know that I have agreed to, and indeed already conducted, a meeting with young people to consider exactly what they want out of the system. I intend to spread those summits to other locations across the country so that we can shape the service to meet young people’s needs, for as John Ruskin said:

“The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.”