YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT

That this House recognises that youth unemployment in Bradford is now a national crisis and that the number of people out of work has increased by 542 per cent since 2008 and the long-term unemployed by 771 per cent since 2011; calls on the Government to take drastic measures to deal with this including re-introducing educational maintenance allowance and pressurising Britain's largest companies who are now sitting on cash reserves of 70 billion to spend at least 10 per cent of this on taking on young people which would create 350,000 jobs; insists that the benefit of the reduction in corporation tax is invested in new jobs; and demands that the Government, rather than continue its austerity programme, invests in national and regional infrastructure and community projects which will have a direct impact on getting young people back to work.