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  • Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    I was just wondering what the impact of the minimum wage has been in London in reducing relative poverty. Clearly, it affects those in employment, rather than those outside it, but I would like some idea of what the experts feel has been the impact.

  • Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    I understand that there should be a London rate, and I think there has been work done on that, on the living wage. Coming back to Kate (Green)'s point that tax credits are more significant, one of the experiences I have come across is that the bureaucracy of targeted financial programmes can be such that it actually puts off a lot of people from sitting down and putting in the applications that they are perfectly entitled to make. I don't know if you have got any thoughts on that, and how that can be cleared up so that it's a...

  • Role of Education, Training & Employment in Lifting People out of Poverty (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    Certainly my perception is that the LSC has failed to encourage a breadth of skills training, and that's why we have this deficit in the building trade. Joiners, plumbers, they are all Europeans coming in and filling these jobs, and the indigenous population in young people leaving schools are not getting a chance because they do not have the skills and there is somehow no way that they can get the training. So, I am afraid, this is very true and I see this all the time in my constituencies. There is, actually, a wonderful life for people who have...

  • Role of Education, Training & Employment in Lifting People out of Poverty (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    What I wanted to ask about is the skills shortage that there is in London, and, Mr Ross, you touched on that at the very start of this meeting. There are whole areas of skills in the building trade which we do not have any longer, and so, therefore, people from Europe are walking into jobs here instead of the indigenous population. What I was going to suggest to the Mayor, now he is in charge of the Learning and Skills Board and stuff, and the new strategy, why do we not think of going back to the apprenticeship scheme...