Best thing we can offer young people is a job, not benefits, says chancellor

The chancellor has warned against allowing Britain's benefits measure to balloon portion not offering young radical opportunities.

John Healey told Labour's yearly league successful Liverpool that cutting payment spending was "more than an economical indispensable - it's a motivation duty".

"The champion happening we tin connection a young idiosyncratic is not a payment outgo - it's a archetypal occupation with grooming and a wage," helium said.

He announced the enlargement of a Local Apprenticeships Service for mayors successful England, which helium said would present thousands much apprenticeships for young people.

Healey's code comes arsenic helium faces unit to chopped nationalist spending oregon rise taxes up of adjacent month's Budget to bring down authorities borrowing costs.

In an effort to reassure the markets, helium said each promises the authorities made would beryllium "built connected the stone of fiscal discipline" with him and Prime Minister Andy Burnham "united connected gathering the fiscal rules".

Fiscal rules are the government's self-imposed constraints to negociate decisions connected spending and tax.

The Budget would "give families and businesses a spot of breathing space", the chancellor said.

And helium admitted that "the wealth New Labour had successful the '90s is simply not determination now".

Healey blamed the Conservative Party's clip successful authorities for leaving Britain spending much connected indebtedness than connected the Home Office, Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Justice combined.

Tory shadiness chancellor Andrew Griffith said successful effect to the code that "Labour MPs volition ne'er enactment cutting the out-of-control payment bill" and "with Labour, it's ever much taxes if you enactment and much benefits if you don't".

Healey praised young radical arsenic "digital natives, whip-smart, questioning, ambitious, brave" who could determination from "generation jeopardy to procreation hope".

But helium pointed to the million young radical not successful education, employment oregon training - known arsenic Neets - which helium said created a necessity to marque benefits a span into work, alternatively than a "trap".

"It is not progressive to let a bigger and bigger benefits bill, and a strategy which offers an income but doesn't connection a future," helium said.