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At Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, Chancellor John Healey pledged fiscal discipline while supporting jobs and growth. He announced a local apprenticeship service, £6bn of shipyard contracts and a focus on finding work for almost 1 million young people not in education, employment or training.
The contracts announced for British shipyards were worth GBP 6000000000.
Avanti West Coast reported a train cancellation rate of 7.1% from April to June this year.
At Labour's annual conference in Liverpool, Prime Minister Andy Burnham defended the union, said Brexit had done more harm than good and set out policies including a National Care Service, cost-of-living measures and global AI regulation. Ministers said his emotional speech persuaded them and marked a more united government.
Shabana Mahmood is set to reopen the UK refugee resettlement scheme, prioritising vulnerable Afghan women and girls and Palestinians. Palestinian referrals will initially be limited to very small numbers of urgent cases already outside Gaza, processed in Jordan and Lebanon.
The Home Office expects Afghan women and girls and Palestinian refugees to make up about 25% of arrivals under the scheme.
Ministers are considering major welfare reforms, including replacing or restricting disability benefits for under-25s with expanded employment support. The plans await two reviews; a thinktank says condition-based exclusions would not deliver major savings and calls for a wider PIP overhaul.
Young people in the UK who are out of work, employment and training
Shabana Mahmood signalled she may water down proposed reforms that would make some foreign care workers wait 15 years before applying for permanent residence. No final decision has been made, as opposition from Angela Rayner and unions grows.
The proposed rules would require low-paid migrants in jobs below graduate level to be in the UK for 15 years before applying for settlement.
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The United Kingdom has nearly 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds classified as not in employment, education or training.