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Evening Standard
Clara Margotin

Prime Minister meets hospitality bosses to outline help for youth jobless crisis

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer hosts a roundtable at Downing Street with members of the hospitality industry ( Alberto Pezzali/PA Wire/PA Images) - (PA Wire)

A new plan will help businesses recruit young people who have been out of a job for at least six months, Sir Keir Starmer has announced.

The Prime Minister said the youth jobs grant will offer firms £3,000 to hire an 18 to 24-year-old who has been on universal credit for six months or more, in a bid to help the more than a million young people not in employment, education or training (Neet).

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