Best thing we can offer young people is a job, not benefits, says chancellor
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John Healey and cabinet ministers from the other great offices of state gave speeches at Labour Party conference on Monday The chancellor has warned against allowing Britain's benefits bill to balloon while not offering young people opportunities.
约翰·希利和来自其他重要国家机构的内阁部长周一在工党会议上发表讲话 英国财政大臣警告称，不要让英国的福利法案不断膨胀，同时又不为年轻人提供机会。
John Healey told Labour's annual conference in Liverpool that cutting welfare spending was "more than an economic must - it's a moral duty".
约翰·希利在利物浦举行的工党年度会议上表示，削减福利支出“不仅仅是经济上的必须，也是道义上的责任”。
"The best thing we can offer a young person is not a benefit payment - it's a first job with training and a wage," he said.
“我们能为年轻人提供的最好的东西不是福利金，而是第一份有培训和工资的工作，”他说。
He announced the expansion of a Local Apprenticeships Service for mayors in England, which he said would deliver thousands more apprenticeships for young people.
他宣布扩大英格兰市长的本地学徒服务，他表示这将为年轻人提供更多的学徒机会。
Healey's speech comes as he faces pressure to cut public spending or raise taxes ahead of next month's Budget to bring down government borrowing costs.
希利发表讲话之际，他面临着在下个月的预算案公布之前削减公共支出或提高税收以降低政府借贷成本的压力。
In an attempt to reassure the markets, he said all promises the government made would be "built on the rock of fiscal discipline" with him and Prime Minister Andy Burnham "united on meeting the fiscal rules".
为了安抚市场，他表示政府做出的所有承诺都将“建立在财政纪律的基础上”，他和总理安迪·伯纳姆“团结一致遵守财政规则”。
Fiscal rules are the government's self-imposed constraints to manage decisions on spending and tax.
财政规则是政府为管理支出和税收决策而自我施加的约束。
The Budget would "give families and businesses a bit of breathing space", the chancellor said.
财政大臣表示，预算案将“给家庭和企业一点喘息的空间”。
And he admitted that "the money New Labour had in the '90s is simply not there now".
他承认“新工党在 90 年代拥有的资金现在根本不存在”。
Healey blamed the Conservative Party's time in government for leaving Britain spending more on debt than on the Home Office, Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Justice combined.
希利指责保守党执政期间导致英国的债务支出超过了内政部、国防部和司法部的总和。
Tory shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith said in response to the speech that "Labour MPs will never support cutting the out-of-control welfare bill" and "with Labour, it's always more taxes if you work and more benefits if you don't".
保守党影子财政大臣安德鲁·格里菲斯在回应演讲时表示，“工党议员永远不会支持削减失控的福利法案”，“对于工党来说，如果你工作，总是会得到更多的税收，如果你不工作，就会得到更多的福利”。
Healey praised young people as "digital natives, whip-smart, questioning, ambitious, brave" who could move from "generation jeopardy to generation hope".
希利称赞年轻人是“数字原住民、聪明、敢于质疑、雄心勃勃、勇敢”，他们可以从“一代人的危险走向一代人的希望”。
But he pointed to the million young people not in education, employment or training - known as Neets - which he said created a necessity to make benefits a bridge into work, rather than a "trap".
但他指出，有数百万没有接受教育、就业或培训的年轻人，即所谓的“啃老族”，他说，这使得福利成为进入工作的桥梁，而不是“陷阱”。
"It is not progressive to allow a bigger and bigger benefits bill, and a system which offers an income but doesn't offer a future," he said.
“允许越来越大的福利法案以及提供收入但不提供未来的制度并不是进步，”他说。
Asked how quickly the bill might come down, when he appeared on the BBC's Newscast later on Tuesday, Healey would not commit to the benefits bill falling, saying he "won't set a timeline" for the UK's benefits bill coming down by the time of the next election.
当被问及该法案可能以多快的速度通过时，希利周二晚些时候出现在英国广播公司的新闻广播中时，他不会承诺福利法案会下降，并表示他“不会为英国在下次选举之前下降福利法案设定时间表”。
The Local Apprenticeships Service was initially planned as a pilot in a limited number of areas but would now be available to any English mayor who wants it, he said.
他说，当地学徒服务最初计划在有限的几个地区进行试点，但现在任何有需要的英国市长都可以使用。
Through the scheme, which the Treasury says will roll out across England from March 2027, local teams plan to match young people with employers, including small businesses that have never taken on a trainee.
财政部表示将从 2027 年 3 月起在英格兰各地推广该计划，当地团队计划通过该计划为年轻人与雇主牵线搭桥，其中包括从未招收实习生的小企业。
The department said an extra £100m was going into the scheme, "fully funded" by savings from the Department for Work and Pensions' crackdown on fraud.
该部门表示，该计划将额外投入 1 亿英镑，“全部资金”来自工作和养老金部打击欺诈的储蓄。
Powers to implement the scheme will rest with mayors because "they know which firms are hiring, which colleges are delivering, which estates have been left behind," Healey said.
实施该计划的权力将由市长们掌握，因为“他们知道哪些公司正在招聘，哪些大学正在提供服务，哪些房产被抛在后面，”希利说。
John Healey visits apprentices in January 2025, when he was defence secretary It comes as the final instalment of a major report by former minister Alan Milburn is expected to set out recommendations for tackling the one in eight people aged 16 to 24 in the UK who are Neets in the coming weeks.
2025 年 1 月，时任国防部长的约翰·希利 (John Healey) 探望学徒 与此同时，前部长艾伦·米尔本 (Alan Milburn) 的一份重要报告的最后一部分预计将提出建议，以在未来几周内解决英国 16 至 24 岁年龄段中八分之一的尼特人问题。
Healey said these young people had been "signed off, written off" which the Labour government would address.
希利表示，这些年轻人已被“注销、注销”，工党政府将解决这一问题。
Helen Miller, director of the Institute for fiscal studies think tank, told the BBC that sticking to fiscal rules alone would not be enough to reduce debt because it is "basically a promise to get down debt tomorrow".
财政研究所智库主任海伦·米勒告诉英国广播公司，仅遵守财政规则不足以减少债务，因为这“基本上是明天减少债务的承诺”。
She suggested that reducing the benefits bill, including removing support from some people, could be one way of cutting the national debt sooner.
她建议，减少福利法案，包括取消某些人的支持，可能是更快削减国家债务的一种方法。
Elsewhere in his speech, Healey repeated his promises to re-industrialise the country and said Rolls Royce would invest £300m more into its British factories in Derby, Bristol, Glasgow and Rotherham.
希利在演讲的其他地方重申了他对英国重新工业化的承诺，并表示劳斯莱斯将向其位于德比、布里斯托尔、格拉斯哥和罗瑟勒姆的英国工厂追加投资 3 亿英镑。
He also said he was bringing back the Union Learning Fund in England, established in 1998 and abolished by the Tories, to help working people gain more skills in an age of artificial intelligence.
他还表示，他将恢复英国的联合学习基金（该基金成立于 1998 年，后来被保守党废除），以帮助劳动人民在人工智能时代获得更多技能。
It was initially unclear how this would be funded.
最初尚不清楚如何筹集资金。
Healey did not set out a pathway for greater defence spending in his speech, another area of pressure for ministers. And he declined to commit to the pensions triple lock being in Labour's next manifesto, when asked several times by BBC Radio 5 Live's Matt Chorley, after speculation it may be dropped to help fund a new social care system.
希利在讲话中没有提出增加国防开支的途径，这是部长们面临的另一个压力领域。 当英国广播公司广播电台 5 直播节目的马特·乔利 (Matt Chorley) 多次询问时，他拒绝承诺工党下一份宣言中的养老金三重锁定，因为猜测可能会放弃养老金三重锁定以帮助资助新的社会保障体系。
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Want your job application to stand out? Employers say they look for these six skills Healey to promise 'new age of industrialisation' for UK in conference speech One in eight young people still out of work or education ahead of major review
想让您的工作申请脱颖而出吗？ 雇主说他们寻找这六项技能 希利在会议演讲中承诺英国“工业化新时代” 在重大审查之前，八分之一的年轻人仍处于失业或教育状态
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