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Job Vacancies: Sittingbourne and Sheppey

Monday 13 May 2024 · 2 questions

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Key points

  • Minister thanked Gordon Henderson for his question on job vacancies in Sittingbourne and Sheppey constituency.
  • Team held a jobs fair at Swale leisure centre with 48 local employers and local radio station broadcasting live to promote job opportunities.
  • Minister agreed to support education and skills training for unemployed individuals to access available jobs, mentioning initiatives like boot camps and workplace academy programmes.

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Questions & Answers

Q1 Gordon Henderson Con
Employment Benefits & Welfare
Context

The MP is concerned about job vacancies in his constituency, highlighting the need for employment opportunities.

Question

What steps he is taking to help fill job vacancies in Sittingbourne and Sheppey constituency.

Answer from Jo Churchill

I thank my hon. Friend for his question. Fantastically, as the timing would have it, the team in his constituency are today holding a jobs fair at Swale leisure centre, with the support of 48 local employers. The local radio station is broadcasting live from the event to promote opportunities, and the DWP is working hard day in, day out to get people into work.

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Q2 Gordon Henderson Con
Education Employment
Context

The MP emphasizes the importance of education and skills training for people who are unemployed to take advantage of job opportunities. He specifically mentions the unemployment situation on the Isle of Sheppey.

Question

I thank my hon. Friend for that reply, but does she agree that it is also important to ensure that people who are unemployed have the education and skills training needed to take the jobs on offer? Much of the unemployment in my constituency is on the Isle of Sheppey. With that in mind, will she join me in welcoming the radical shake-up of secondary education now taking place on the island, and in addition the extension of Sheppey College to provide additional post-16 skill training courses, which is being part-funded by the Government's levelling-up fund?

Answer from Jo Churchill

I join my hon. Friend in that, because any way we can help lift skills across the piece, such as through boot camps and workplace academy programmes, to help people into high-skill, well-paid jobs, particularly in areas where perhaps that has not been the norm, is to be welcomed and congratulated.

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