Chorley MP calls for help for construction workers (From Chorley Citizen)

Chorley MP calls for help for construction workers

3:37pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010

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Chorley’s MP has urged the government to provide more funds to get construction workers back into work.

Speaking in the House of Commons Lindsay Hoyle highlighted the difficulty unemployed construction workers face in gaining new employment.

He said: “People with skills within the construction sector have just been made redundant and unemployed and have signed on at the local jobcentre in Chorley.

“They want to work on the railways, but they need certification in order to do so, and the jobcentre will not pay for it.

“There is therefore a void, leaving people on the unemployment register when jobs are available.

“All that is needed is someone to help with funding and I am urging the government to address this issue in order to help reduce unemployment.”

In response Jim Knight, Minister of State said: “One of the things that we seek to do is increase our personal advisers' flexibility so that they can give people more personalised support in the circumstances that he has described.

“We particularly want to increase flexibility in their use of the new single skills fund that we have created, along with the skills accounts, so that when there is a real prospect of a job at the end of the process we can deploy funds to help people.”

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