1.3m jobs 'could go due to spending cuts', report says

Cuts announced in the Budget could lead to up to 1.3 million jobs being lost by 2015, a newspaper report claims.


The Guardian says leaked Treasury figures predict that up to 120,000 public sector jobs and 140,000 private sector jobs could disappear annually for the next five years.

Labour figures said the true cost of George Osborne's Budget was now clear.

But the government said independent experts expect "unemployment to fall in every year and employment to rise".

Duncan Smith considers incentives to relocate jobless

The new government has announced a new plan to move unemployed people from their council houses to another part of the country with work.

From my understanding we don't have enough council housing in the first place, and what about the family's other family's, friends and more importantly the children's schooling.

Is the government promising, a new job, a place for each child at the nearest school, funding to help for travel, funding to help for child care and a new council house, I don't think so.

This feels like another short sighted attempt by the government to reduce its unemployment numbers without really helping the people that need it.

These are my questions below:

• What happens if one person has a job, but the other partner doesn't are their still expected to move.
• A lot of working people use their family and friends to look after children, under this system the government will have to pay for extra child care.
• What happens if you turn down the job (do you then loss your benefits and housing)
• Were are all these jobs, Britain no longer has mass factory's or manufacturing sites.
• Will the government also give them money to put a car on the road or pay for public transport, because you can't say well we have a job and a council house for you, but they are twenty miles apart and we are cutting all the public transport systems.
• Also this migration will be from the north to the south, since the north was so heavily hit by the Tory's back in the 80's the jobs on scale needed just don't exist.
• Are you guaranteed a school place for your children in the nearest school, which then will have a knock on effected, do we just add more children to the class or will local family then get turned down.

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Duncan Smith considers incentives to relocate jobless

Unemployed people living in council homes could be offered incentives to move to areas where there are jobs, the work and pensions secretary has said.


Iain Duncan Smith said millions were trapped in "ghettos of poverty" unable to move for fear of losing their homes.

Labour's Ed Balls called the idea "profoundly unfair" and likened it to Tory calls in the 1980s for people to "get on your bike" to look for work.

But Mr Duncan Smith said such comparisons were "ludicrous".

The coalition government has promised bold welfare reforms to ensure work pays better and to tackle generations of unemployment in families.

'Trapped'

Mr Duncan Smith said that the fact that there were five-and-a-half million people who were not working showed that current policies were not working.

Britain had one of the most static workforces in the western world, with people "trapped" in areas with high unemployment, he said.

Under the last government, he told Sky News, "almost ghettos of poverty" had appeared "where people are static and unable to get work because there is not work there".

The government wanted to distribute unemployment more evenly across the country and to make it as easy for people on low incomes to travel to do a job as the better-off, he added.


Mr Duncan Smith said he did not expect people to relocate to different parts of the country, nor did he want everyone to move to the south east of England.

Appointment of Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister

Her Majesty The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister.


It has been agreed that five Cabinet posts will be filled by Liberal Democrats, including the appointment of Nick Clegg.