约翰·希利的讲话是在下月预算案出台前发表的，他正面临降低政府借贷成本的压力。
John Healey's speech comes ahead of next month's Budget, as he faces pressure to bring down government borrowing costs.
作者：埃德·萨默维尔 财政大臣警告称，不应让英国的福利开支膨胀，同时未能为年轻人提供机会。约翰·希利告诉工党年度大会，削减福利支出“不仅是经济上的必需——更是一种道德责任”。
By Ewan Somerville The chancellor has warned against allowing Britain's benefits bill to balloon while not offering young people opportunities. John Healey told Labour's annual conference in Liverpool that cutting welfare spending was "more than an economic must - it's a moral duty".
他说：“我们能给年轻人的最好东西不是福利金——而是一份带有培训和工资的第一份工作。”
"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.
他宣布扩大英格兰市长的地方学徒服务，称这将为年轻人提供更多学徒机会。
He announced the expansion of a Local Apprenticeships Service for mayors in England, which he said would deliver thousands more apprenticeships for young people.
希利发表讲话之际，他正面临在下月预算案前削减公共开支或增税的压力。
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“建立在财政纪律的磐石之上”，他和首相安迪·伯纳姆“在遵守财政规则上立场一致”。财政规则是政府为管理开支和税收决策而自我施加的约束。这位财政大臣表示，预算案将“给家庭和企业一点喘息空间”。他承认，“工党在90年代拥有的资金现在根本不存在了”。
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. 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".
希利将英国债务高于内政部、国防部和司法部支出总和归咎于保守党执政时期。
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.
影子财政大臣安德鲁·格里菲斯回应讲话时表示，“工党议员永远不会支持削减失控的福利开支”，并且“在工党治下，如果你工作就要交更多税，如果你不工作就能拿更多福利”。
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“数字原住民，聪明伶俐，善于质疑，雄心勃勃，勇敢无畏”，他们可以从“一代人的危境走向一代人的希望”。
Healey praised young people as "digital natives, whip-smart, questioning, ambitious, brave" who could move from "generation jeopardy to generation hope".
但他指出了那些既没有接受教育、也没有就业或培训的年轻人——这些人被称为“Neets”（即“无业无学”的年轻人）。他认为，这些年轻人的存在使得福利制度必须成为连接他们与工作的桥梁，而不是让他们陷入“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".
“不断增加福利支出，同时却提供一个只能提供收入却无法保障未来的体系，这根本不符合进步的方向，”他说。
"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.
关于学徒制，他表示：“‘本地学徒计划’最初只是作为试点项目在少数地区实施，但现在任何希望推广该计划的英格兰市长都可以申请使用这一方案。”
Apprenticeships promise 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.
根据英国财政部的说法，该计划将从2027年3月开始在全英格兰范围内推广。通过这一计划，地方政府团队会将年轻人与雇主（包括那些从未招收过学徒的小企业）进行匹配。
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，将为该计划额外投入1亿英镑的资金，这些资金完全来自“工作和养老金部”的节省下来的预算。
The department said an extra £100m was going into the scheme, "fully funded" by savings from the Department for Work and Pensions.
Healey强调，实施该计划的权力将掌握在市长手中，因为“市长们最了解哪些企业正在招聘人才、哪些学校正在提供培训服务，以及哪些地区仍然处于落后状态”。
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，前部长Alan Milburn即将发布一份重要报告，该报告预计将在未来几周内提出针对英国16至24岁年轻人中“Neets”群体问题的具体解决方案。
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.
Healey指出，这些年轻人长期以来一直被社会忽视、被当作“无用之人”对待，而工党政府将致力于改变这一现状。
Healey said these young people had been "signed off, written off" which the Labour government would address.
财政研究智库Institute for Fiscal Studies的主任Helen Miller在接受BBC采访时指出，仅仅遵守财政规则是不足以减少国家债务的；因为债务问题本质上是一个“需要在未来才能解决的长期问题”。她建议，通过削减福利支出（包括取消对某些人的福利支持）可能是加快减少国家债务速度的一种方法。
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". She suggested that reducing the benefits bill, including removing support from some people, could be one way of cutting the national debt sooner.
在演讲的其他部分，Healey重申了他推动国家产业复兴的承诺，并表示Rolls Royce公司将在德比、布里斯托尔、格拉斯哥和罗瑟汉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，将恢复于1998年设立、后被保守党废除的英格兰联合学习基金，帮助劳动者在人工智能时代提升技能。最初尚不清楚该基金将如何获得资金。以了解威斯敏斯特内部及其之外事务的运作情况。
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.