埃文·萨默维尔报道：财政大臣警告称，如果不对年轻人提供就业机会，英国的福利支出将会持续膨胀。
By Ewan Somerville The chancellor has warned against allowing Britain's benefits bill to balloon while not offering young people opportunities.
约翰·希利在利物浦举行的工党年会上表示，削减福利支出“不仅是经济上的必要之举，更是道德责任”。
John Healey told Labour's annual conference in Liverpool that cutting welfare spending was "more than an economic must - it's a moral duty". "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.
他说：“我们能为年轻人提供的最好帮助，不是福利金，而是一份包含培训机会的正式工作以及相应的工资。”
He announced the expansion of a Local Apprenticeships Service for mayors in England, which he said would deliver thousands more apprenticeships for young people.
他还宣布将扩大英格兰地区的“地方学徒计划”，预计该计划将为更多年轻人提供就业机会。
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.
希利的这番讲话正值他面临压力之际——他需要在下个月的预算案中削减公共支出或提高税收，以降低政府的借贷成本。
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.
为安抚市场，他表示政府的所有承诺都将“建立在严格的财政纪律基础上”，他本人与首相安迪·伯纳姆在遵守财政规则方面立场一致。
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". Fiscal rules are the government's self-imposed constraints to manage decisions on spending and tax.
财政规则是政府为自身决策设定的约束性规定，旨在规范支出和税收政策。财政大臣称，新的预算案将为家庭和企业带来喘息的空间。
The Budget would "give families and businesses a bit of breathing space", the chancellor said. And he admitted that "the money New Labour had in the '90s is simply not there now".
他还承认：“上世纪90年代工党执政时期所拥有的财政资源，如今已不复存在。”
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.
针对希利的讲话，保守党影子财政大臣安德鲁·格里菲斯回应称：“工党议员绝不会支持削减失控的福利支出；在工党执政下，工作的人反而要缴纳更多税款，而不工作的人则会获得更多福利。”
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".
希利称赞年轻人是“数字时代的原住民，聪明、善于思考、有抱负且勇敢”，他们有能力将社会从危机中带向希望。
Healey praised young people as "digital natives, whip-smart, questioning, ambitious, brave" who could move from "generation jeopardy to generation hope".
但他也指出，目前有数百万年轻人既没有接受教育，也没有工作或参加培训（这些人被称为“NEET群体”），因此必须将福利制度视为通往工作的桥梁，而非“陷阱”。
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".
他说：“允许福利支出不断扩大，以及维持一个只提供收入却不提供未来的制度，并不是进步。”
"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.
他表示，“地方学徒服务”最初计划在少数地区试点，但现在将向任何想要实施的英格兰市长开放。
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.
英国财政部称，该计划将从2027年3月起在英格兰推广。通过该计划，地方团队打算把年轻人与雇主匹配起来，包括那些从未招收过学徒的小企业。
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.
该部门表示，将向该计划额外投入1亿英镑，这笔资金由工作和养老金部的节余“全额资助”。
The department said an extra £100m was going into the scheme, "fully funded" by savings from the Department for Work and Pensions.
希利说，实施该计划的权力将掌握在市长手中，因为“他们知道哪些公司在招聘，哪些学院在提供培训，哪些社区被落在了后面”。
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.
与此同时，前大臣艾伦·米尔本一份重要报告的最终部分预计将在未来几周内提出建议，以应对英国16至24岁人群中八分之一属于“不就业、不升学、不培训”群体的问题。
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.
希利说，这些年轻人一直被“认定无需工作、被放弃”，而工党政府将解决这一问题。
Healey said these young people had been "signed off, written off" which the Labour government would address.
财政研究所智库主任海伦·米勒告诉BBC，仅遵守财政规则不足以减少债务，因为这“本质上只是承诺明天把债务降下来”。
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".
她提出，减少福利支出，包括取消对一些人的支持，可能是更快削减国家债务的一种方式。
She suggested that reducing the benefits bill, including removing support from some people, could be one way of cutting the national debt sooner.
希利在演讲中还重申了推动国家再工业化的承诺，并表示罗尔斯·罗伊斯将向其位于德比、布里斯托尔、格拉斯哥和罗瑟勒姆的英国工厂再投资3亿英镑。
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.
他还表示，将在英格兰恢复“工会学习基金”。该基金成立于1998年，后被保守党废除，旨在帮助劳动者在人工智能时代获得更多技能。最初尚不清楚这将如何获得资金。紧跟威斯敏斯特及其以外的内部运作。
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. It was initially unclear how this would be funded. to keep up with the inner workings of Westminster and beyond.