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Lord Katz (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 5 February 2026

Debate

Jobs Market

Contribution

I thank the noble Lord for raising that interesting proposal. I do not know the detail of it, so I would have to take it away. However, that is very much what we are doing with an element of our youth guarantee, as we heard earlier from my noble friend Lady Smith. That is about giving a six-month guaranteed job for young people who have been receiving universal credit and looking for work for more than 18 months. That is the kind of model that we are trying out to tackle that particularly hard-to-get-to and important part of unemployment.

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