Main Business
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OPPOSITION DAY (3rd allotted day)
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[Until 7.00 pm]
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GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR JOBS AND THE UNEMPLOYED
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That this House notes with grave concern that the emergency budget will increase unemployment; calls on the Government to
publish the HM Treasury analysis of jobs that will be lost in the public and private sector; condemns the Government’s decision
to axe the Future Jobs Fund, the Youth Guarantee and the Jobseeker’s Guarantee, scrapping hundreds of thousands of jobs and
training places for the unemployed; further notes that the Government is cutting employment support to help people into jobs
at a time when growth is still fragile; regrets that the role of the voluntary sector in helping people into work is at risk;
further notes that the current claimant count is half the level it was in the 1980s and 1990s as a result of the support and
investment the previous Government provided for jobs and getting people back to work; further notes the cost to communities
and the economy of long-term unemployment; and condemns the Government’s decision to abolish regional development agencies
with potentially damaging consequences for regional economies at a time when the recovery is not yet assured.
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As an Amendment to Ms Harriet Harman’s proposed Motion (Government support for jobs and the unemployed):
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Line 1, leave out from ‘House’ to end and add ‘welcomes the emergency budget which will tackle the unprecedented legacy of debt
over the next five years by reducing borrowing from a projected £149 billion this year to just £20 billion in 2015-16; notes
the Office for Budget Responsibility’s projection that unemployment will fall in every year of this Parliament as a result
of the Government’s policies to stimulate private sector employment by reversing the damaging increase planned for employer
national insurance contributions, introducing a £1 billion Regional Growth Fund, reducing the corporation and small profits
tax rates and increasing the Enterprise Finance Guarantee, resulting in the creation of a projected two million new private
sector jobs by 2015-16; further welcomes moves to implement a single work programme that will provide personalised support
to help people move into sustained employment, to introduce a £1,000 increase in income tax personal allowances which will
incentivise work, to reform the benefits system to ensure that work pays and to provide 50,000 new apprenticeships and 10,000
new university places for young people, thus stimulating growth, delivering jobs and creating a fairer society for all.’.
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The selection of the matter to be debated this day has been made by the Leader of the Opposition (Standing Order No. 14(2)).
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Debate may continue until 7.00 pm.
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EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES, ETC.
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[No debate]
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That the draft Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2010, which were laid before
this House on 23 March 2010, in the previous Parliament, be approved.
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To be decided without debate (Standing Order No. 118(6)).
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BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE
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[No debate after 7.00 pm]
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That, notwithstanding the practice of the House as to the intervals between stages of Bills brought in upon Ways and Means
Resolutions, more than one stage of the Finance Bill may be taken at any sitting of the House.
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If opposed, this item cannot be taken after 7.00 pm.
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At the end of the sitting:
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4
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PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC PETITION
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[No debate]
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Blockade of Gaza (Mr Mark Williams).
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Presentation of petitions: no debate or decision (Standing Order No. 153).
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indicates a question for oral answer.
