The new deal is a broken pledge. Does the hon. Gentleman consider the inflation rate at the moment. I understand that it is less than 2 per cent. The report showed that hundreds and millions of pounds have been spent to find 13,000 jobs.
Unemployed people deserve a better deal.
They do not want to be put on training programmes only to find that they come off them and go back on to benefit because there is no job for them. The new deal has become a revolving door for too many of the long-term unemployed, and that is why it needs replacing with a better scheme. The new deal is a broken pledge. Let us consider the Government's education promises and look back on their early claims about extra education spending. We soon saw how wrong that figure was.