As a follow up to the Norfolk Chamber’s ‘Audience with George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer’ event on the 7 November, we submitted a number of questions from our members to the Chancellor. Responses to those questions are now starting to be received from the relevant Ministers within Westminster.
Richard Ross is Director at Chadwicks Ltd who have recently reached their one year anniversary as members of the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce.
Richard’s question to the Chancellor was:
“While the recent improvements in employment prospects are to be welcomed I am sure the Minister will join me in agreeing that the persistency of high levels of unemployment in younger people are a source of national shame for which we all – government, businesses, educators, parents – must take our share of responsibility. Those least responsible are the young people, many of whom have worked hard to prepare for a productive life only to have those dreams cruelly snatched away from them.
Can you reassure us that suggestions made by Mr Cameron, and detailed by Mr Gove, to restrict benefits to under-25s were no more than Party Conference over-exuberance and that there is no intention to further ostracise this important future resource by implicitly laying the blame for high youth unemployment at their feet rather than where it should truly sit?”
Find on the attached document the written response from the HM Treasury.
