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Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 March 2026

Debate

EU Directive: Adequate Minimum Wages

Contribution

My Lords, the number of young people not in education, employment or training is approaching 1 million. What an utterly devastating waste of human potential. The Government have announced a £3,000 taxpayer-funded subsidy for hiring eligible 18 to 24 year-olds. In saying that, are they not admitting to employers, “We will now subsidise you to hire the very people you could not otherwise afford to take on because we put up employers’ national insurance”? Will the Minister at last admit that this proposal is an admission of abject failure by this Government?

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