My Work in Parliament - Pat McFadden MP Wolverhampton South East

Topical Questions

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

I warmly commend my hon. Friend and the company she mentions. One of the apprenticeship reforms that we have announced is fully funding apprenticeships for SMEs for under-25s. That will help...

Topical Questions

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

The hon. Member is right to say that apprenticeship standards are highly valued. Our constituents value what an apprenticeship means. As we take the scheme forward, it is important that the...

Topical Questions

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend is right to say that purposeful activity, be it training or work, can be an answer to some of the mental health problems that we are seeing in society, so I welcome her endorsement...

Topical Questions

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank the Chair of the Select Committee for her question. We estimate that the measure will lift 450,000 children out of relative poverty, and 550,000 for the strategy as a whole. She is...

Topical Questions

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

I applaud my hon. Friend’s campaigning for young people in his constituency. We are expanding the number of youth hubs, which will offer support across the country. The precise locations...

Topical Questions

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

It is always a pleasure to meet my parliamentary neighbour from Dudley. She is absolutely right to draw attention to the role of allied health professionals, because there is a strong link...

Topical Questions

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend is right to raise that issue. The numbers of people not in education, employment or training have been going in that direction for several years. That is why we brought forward the...

Topical Questions

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

The hon. Gentleman attacks the system, gateways and conditions that his Government created. When it comes to working people and non-working people, he will be aware that most children in poverty...

Topical Questions

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend is right to say that youth hubs can deliver vital help to get young people back on track. This is about getting the jobcentre out of the jobcentre, if you will, and making sure...

Topical Questions

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

Since the last set of Work and Pensions oral questions, we have announced £820 million of funding to offer training and work to young unemployed people through the youth guarantee and...

Unemployment: Young People

Department for Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden received a response to a question they put to the government

The government is investing £820m to help young people earn or learn through the Youth Guarantee. This includes a Jobs Guarantee...

NEET Young People

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

I hate to sound repetitive, but the rates of absence from school rocketed when the Conservatives were in power. Again, this is something that we have begun to address, because children cannot...

NEET Young People

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend is right to point out that the issue of youth opportunity is also an issue of inequality, and that the rate of NEETs is often highest where deprivation and inequality are highest....

NEET Young People

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

If the hon. Gentleman cared about young people and opportunity, he might regret the fact that there was a 40% decline in young people’s apprenticeships over the last decade, when his party...

NEET Young People

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

When this Government came to power, we inherited a situation in which almost 1 million young people were not in education, employment or training. As we have said, the number rose by 50% in the...

Welfare Spending: Economic Impact

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

The Conservatives’ zeal for change is very touching; it is just a pity that they only discovered it the day they stopped having any responsibility for running the welfare system. Let me...

Welfare Spending: Economic Impact

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

It is estimated that the child poverty strategy we published on Friday will lift more than 500,000 children out of poverty by the end of this Parliament. Critically, most of the children in...

Welfare Spending: Economic Impact

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

We have a very different approach to the issue of NEETs from the Conservative party. We are not going to sit and look at the graph rise year by year without offering young people hope and...

Welfare Spending: Economic Impact

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

The hon. Gentleman will find that the welfare budget had risen three times as fast as a proportion of GDP as it is projected to rise under this Government. We have begun to make changes through...

Welfare Spending: Economic Impact

Work and Pensions

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

The Conservative party watched the number of those who are not in education, employment or training grow year by year and did nothing about it. The hon. Lady will find that, at the Budget a...