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Baroness Sherlock (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 24 March 2026

Debate

Youth Unemployment

Contribution

The noble Viscount makes a very important point. We have the great advantage now that my noble friend Lady Smith is the Minister for Skills both in the Department for Education and in the Department for Work and Pensions. That synergy is already proving very helpful, and so we are able to have very good conversations with our colleagues in the DfE. As he knows, in the DWP, by creating the new jobs and careers service, we are trying to make sure that we bring these things together at the outset so that we help people to get not just a single job but the opportunity to develop a career that will carry them forward. He makes an important point, and we will keep looking at this.

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