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• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 23 July 2020

Joanne McCartney AM: Yes, thank you, Chair. My initial question is to Sam Gurney, if I can, and it is about the increasing number of people who are claiming Universal Credit (UC), which we know is a very difficult and cruel system. Since the end of March, I believe, 440,000 new claimants for UC have come from London. When furlough ends, that is likely to see another spike. What concerns does the TUC have about this record number of Londoners finding themselves reliant on UC? What will that mean for poverty in the capital?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

I am glad to hear that because, of course, Tottenham and Edmonton have got some of the highest worklessness rates in London. I want to just briefly move on to the London Skills and Employment Board. Do you have a timetable yet as to when this strategy may be developed?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

I would like to ask firstly about Assisted Area status. You know my concerns with that, especially with developing part of the Lea Valley. I know the Chair sent a helpful letter in the summer and this Assembly also lobbied on this. Do we have any news, first of all, as to where those negotiations are going?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

I think in tackling worklessness, it is obviously important that you have children coming out of school and training and retraining for adults to meet the needs of the workplace, but I am wondering presumably you will be consulting with business, about what business needs and a strategy but will you also be consulting with young people as well? I know from some of the work we have done on the Economic Development Committee that the views of young people often is that perhaps academia is not the best place for many of them and that they should be given...