Creating Jobs
Over five million people are claiming out-of-work benefits. In 3.3 million households (17 per cent of all households), no adult works and unemployment is higher than it was in 1997.
915,000 16 to 24 year-olds are unemployed, and one in five young people can't find a job. During Labour's recession youth unemployment hit record highs.
Britain has a higher proportion of children growing up in workless households than any other European country, with one in six children growing up in a house where no one works.
We have bold plans to deal with the big problems the country faces. To tackle Labour's jobs crisis we have published our detailed plan to Get Britain Working.
We will support entrepreneurs by cutting corporation tax rates and abolishing taxes on the first ten jobs created by new businesses in the first two years of a Conservative government.
We will take action to prevent more than half of Labour's planned increase in Employers National Insurance - a tax on jobs.
We will radically reform welfare, replacing Labour's numerous and
piecemeal programmes into one single back-to-work programme for
everyone on out of work benefits, including the 2.6 million people
claiming Incapacity Benefits currently excluded by Labour.
We
will give more support to young people, who will be referred for
specialist support into work after 6 months unemployment compared to
ten months under Labour's Young Person's Guarantee. To give young
people the skills they need to get a sustainable job for the future,
over two years we will fund 200,000 apprenticeships and
pre-apprenticeships, 100,000 work pairings and 100,000 further
education college places.
