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John comments on Lib Dem Youth Unemployment proposals

The Lib Dems are proposing that young people will not spend more than 90 days on Jobseekers Allowance before they get more training, education, an internship or a place on a work programme. They will do this by increasing the number of further education places, giving students financial support to return to college and creating a paid internship scheme. The Lib Dems parliamentary candidate Barry Rabone claims the problem is shown by the fact that one in 10 over 70’s were still financially responsible for their children.

• We will set up a Work Programme and refer people to this after 6 months of unemployment compared to a year under the Flexible New Deal. Our scheme will be delivered by private and voluntary providers, who will only be paid when someone gets and keeps a job and will be funded by reallocating funds from Labour’s centralized, bureaucratic failing schemes.
• We will create an extra 10,000 university places next year funded by giving graduates an incentive to repay their student loan debts to the taxpayer ahead of schedule.
• And we will, abolish tax on new jobs created by new businesses in the first two years of a Conservative Government because any new business will pay no Employer National Insurance on the first ten employees it hires during its first year.”