Downing Street Says » Unemployment

» Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Unemployment

Asked if the Prime Minister was concerned about the rise in youth unemployment, the PMS said yes, but it was worth recognising that youth unemployment had been a problem for many years.

We had seen persistently high levels of youth unemployment even when unemployment was falling overall so it was clearly something we were concerned about and something we intended to address.

On whether the Prime Minister accepted that the cuts programme would make things worse for youth unemployment, the PMS said that what we needed was an economic policy that saw a rebalancing in the economy and that was what we were doing through our deficit reduction plan.

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