Brendan Ryan (Labour)

We are all literate and we can read the tribunal reports. We can draw conclusions quite clearly but we will, hopefully, discuss that issue later.

I support my colleagues in their call for a debate on partnership and a number of issues that people do not want to talk about badly need to be discussed. For example, there has been a great deal of talk about the fact that unemployment levels have remained low and have not changed. However, 20,000 more people are unemployed now than four years ago but because unemployment is measured in percentage terms——