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Written Question
Unemployment
Monday 14th March 2016

Asked by: Robert Syms (Conservative - Poole)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on reducing the number of workless households.

Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

Since 2010 the number of workless households has fallen by over 680,000 to its lowest level since records began.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Dec 2013
Food Banks

"Poole food bank does a valuable job, supported by a wide range of people, largely from the churches, but including people across the political spectrum. They are all dealing with what must be a very difficult personal crisis for many when they cannot put food on the table. As a …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Dec 2013
Food Banks

"That is a very good point.

We all know that many people in work, as well as those who are out of work, have experienced a big drop in their living standards, and we know that that is because of the economic crisis, but the good news is that there …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Dec 2013
Food Banks

"One of our purposes in introducing universal credit is to make the transition from unemployment to work much easier. The scheme is complicated—we all know that—but I think that it is a worthwhile venture, because anything making employment easier must be a good thing...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Dec 2013
Food Banks

"I will not, because my time is limited. I have already taken two interventions.

I am sure that, as the economy recovers, living standards will recover as well, but there is a short-term problem and a long-term problem. The short-term problem is the need for us to recover from the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Dec 2013
Food Banks

"There is an argument to be had about the impact of that. Certainly it helped people with assets rather than those without assets. Nevertheless, I think that progress is being made, and that this morning’s unemployment figures represent a good staging post.

We need to do much more to educate …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Nov 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"4. What assessment he has made of the effect of the benefit cap on employment outcomes..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Nov 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"Jobcentre Plus in Dorset worked extremely hard to identify those affected and to get them into employment. What assessment has my right hon. Friend made of the impact of that on the recent encouraging employment figures?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 Dec 2011
Unemployment

"Youth unemployment started rising in 2004 and peaked at nearly 1 million in 2009. Will my right hon. Friend set out the facts about that in an honest and straightforward manner? The problems did not start in 2010...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 Dec 2011
Unemployment

"I agree with the right hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr MacShane) that the world did not start in May 2010. There are 30 million people in the work force, and when they were educated, what they were educated in, and how they have skilled themselves throughout their lives makes a …..."
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