Member

It is, therefore, to the credit of the Government that they have brought forward a national skills strategy and plans for Skills England as well as the Get Britain Working White Paper. Those initiatives all address the issue of getting young people into work, but this Bill —alas—presents a more challenging and dissonant approach to employment that could easily undermine the Government’s own national skills strategy. There is essentially a dissonance in the Government’s own policy for young people, which on the one hand focuses on helping young people into work and on the other hand takes a very strong action that will make that hard to achieve.