Tom Clarke
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(10 years, 8 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
My hon. Friend makes an important point. Of course we still have more work to do to get young people into work. Overall, however, 1.4 million more people are now employed in the private sector and we have a historic, record level of women in employment, and the number of people in work is almost up by 1 million since the election, with unemployment lower than at the election and long-term unemployment down on a year ago. We still have more work to do, but we are heading in the right direction. We have to keep on track and keep working to help business to take people on.
Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) (Lab)
Q8. Will the Prime Minister tell us why people with mental illnesses are being kept in police cells?
The Prime Minister
We are making efforts to try to bring that to an end through better working between the NHS and the police. This has been a long-standing problem under Governments of all colours for a very long time, but we are having those discussions to try to make good progress.