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Youth Unemployment

EDM number 626 in 2012-13, proposed by George Galloway on 24/10/2012.
Categorised under the topic of Unemployment.

That this House recognises that youth unemployment in Bradford is now a national crisis and that the number of people out of work has increased by 542 per cent since 2008 and the long-term unemployed by 771 per cent since 2011; calls on the Government to take drastic measures to deal with this including re-introducing educational maintenance allowance and pressurising Britain's largest companies who are now sitting on cash reserves of 70 billion to spend at least 10 per cent of this on taking on young people which would create 350,000 jobs; insists that the benefit of the reduction in corporation tax is invested in new jobs; and demands that the Government, rather than continue its austerity programme, invests in national and regional infrastructure and community projects which will have a direct impact on getting young people back to work.

This motion has been signed by a total of 12 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
George Galloway24/10/2012Bradford WestRespectProposed
John McDonnell25/10/2012Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Alan Meale25/10/2012MansfieldLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn26/10/2012Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins29/10/2012Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Jonathan Edwards29/10/2012Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSeconded
David Simpson30/10/2012Upper BannDUPSigned
William McCrea31/10/2012South AntrimDUPSigned
Ian Lavery01/11/2012WansbeckLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell05/11/2012Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Virendra Sharma05/11/2012Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Michael Connarty05/02/2013Linlithgow and East FalkirkLabourSigned

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