Kicking off any minute now…
1201: And we’re off. First question from David Simpson, asking what scrapping the Barnett Formula would mean for the regions. Brown says spending allocations “based on need” and that he thinks that’s right.
1203: Derek Twigg pushes Brown to “ensure” that all information relating to the Hillsborough disaster is released as soon as possible. Brown says “we will look very carefully at what we can do”.
1205: Cameron leads on today’s unemployment figures. He asks Brown to confirm whether what “we’ve seen this calendar year is the fastest rise in unemployment in our history.” This keys into the “Labour isn’t working” theme. Brown responds “That’s why we are prepared to invest…”
1206: Here it is: “The schemes aren’t working,” says Cameron. Asks Brown to confirm how many young people are NEETs. Brown declines to answer the question.
1208: In repsonse to Cameron’s next question, Brown returns to young people – he says that there are more young people in jobs now than in 1997.
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