一份关于青年失业的重大评估报告将建议，企业为25岁以下员工缴纳的国家保险（NI）应逐步降低，以鼓励公司为年轻人创造就业岗位。
Insurance (NI) paid by businesses on workers aged under 25 should be gradually lowered to encourage companies to create jobs for young people, a major review of youth unemployment will say.
前工党部长艾伦·米尔本的报告将建议政府在五年内降低21至24岁人群的国家保险成本，首先从零售和酒店业着手。
A report by former Labour minister Alan Milburn will suggest the government should reduce NI costs over five years for people aged between 21 and 24 years old, starting in retail and hospitality.
在基尔·斯塔默爵士领导下，政府提高了企业的国家保险缴费。米尔本将指出，所谓“既不就业、也不接受教育或培训”的青年人数（即Neets）的增加，并非始于国家保险上调。
Under Sir Keir Starmer, the government raised NI for firms. Milburn will say the number of young people not in employment, education or training - known as Neets - was not started by the NI rise.
影子就业与养老金大臣海伦·沃特利表示，政府应该“直接停止增税”。
But shadow work and pensions secretary, Helen Whately, said the government should "just stop doing the taxing".
这份独立报告酝酿了一年，将于周二发布，还将就削减英国福利开支提出建议。
The independent report, which has been in the works for a year and will be published on Tuesday, will also make recommendations on reducing the UK's benefits bill.
米尔本表示，政府每年花费220亿英镑资助处于经济非活跃状态的年轻人。根据国家统计局数据，英国16至24岁的Neets人数近百万。
Milburn has said the government spends £22bn a year supporting young people who are economically inactive. There are nearly one million so-called Neets aged between 16 and 24 in the UK, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.
他将建议，25岁以下人群不再能申领全英国通用的“普惠金”健康要素或个人独立津贴（PIP），后者是英格兰和威尔士的主要残疾福利。
He will recommend that under-25s should no longer be able to claim the health element of UK-wide Universal Credit or personal independence payment (Pip), which is the main disability benefit in England and Wales.
米尔本希望政府提供工作、培训或就业支持的法律保障。拒绝接受帮助者可能会失去福利。
Milburn wants the government to provide a legal guarantee of a job, training or employment support. Those who refuse to take up help could lose their benefits.
米尔本还将指出，如果没有可供就业的岗位，帮助年轻人提升技能就是徒劳。
Milburn is also expected to say that helping young people develop skills is pointless if there are no jobs available for them.
这位前卫生大臣将建议，将企业为21至24岁员工开始缴纳国家保险的起征点从5000英镑提高一倍至1万英镑。但他将表示，这应“在财政条件允许时”进行。
The former health secretary will recommend doubling the threshold at which businesses start paying NI for 21 to 24-year-olds from £5,000 to £10,000. But he will say this should only be done "when fiscal conditions allow".
倾向左翼的智库“决议基金会”研究显示，立即取消21至24岁人群的国家保险将耗资51亿英镑。
Immediately axing NI for 21 to 24-year-olds would cost £5.1bn, according to research by the Resolution Foundation, a left-leaning think tank.
米尔本将表示，鉴于英国的财政状况，立即全面削减雇主国民保险缴费并非几十亿英镑公共资金的最佳用途。
Milburn is set to say that given the UK's fiscal position, an immediate across-the-board cut in employer NI is not the best use of several billions of pounds of public money.
但诺丁汉拥有三家美发沙龙的发型师科莱特·奥斯本表示，她感到“被就业成本窒息”，其中包括国民保险缴费和最低工资。
But Collette Osborne, a hairdresser who owns three salons in Nottingham, said she feels "suffocated by employment costs" including NI and the minimum wage.
她说，她过去每年雇佣八名学徒，现在却无力聘用任何一名。她的员工队伍已减半多，仅剩21名员工。
She said she used to employ eight apprentices a year, now she cannot afford to take on any. Her workforce has more than halved to 21 staff.
奥斯本告诉英国广播公司（BBC），培训一名学徒的成本“约为6万英镑，然后我们才能真正让他们接触顾客的头发”。
Osborne told the BBC it costs "around £60,000 to train an apprentice before we can actually start allowing them onto customers' heads".
她说，有些家长极其渴望孩子能在她的沙龙找到工作，甚至主动提出支付孩子的工资。
She said she has had parents so desperate for their children to find employment at her salons that some have even offered to pay their wages.
“我收到的申请多得应接不暇——我是说真的应接不暇——这令人心碎，因为我无法录用他们，”她说。奥斯本觉得没有获得帮助来为年轻人提供工作机会。
"I'm inundated with applications - and I mean inundated - which is heartbreaking because I can't take them on," she said. Osborne does not feel she is getting help to offer jobs to youngsters.
“我感觉政府的脚牢牢踩在我的脖子上，”她说。“他们承诺给喘息空间。我感到窒息，被就业成本窒息。”
"I feel like the government's foot is firmly on my neck," she said. "They promise breathing space. I feel suffocated, suffocated by employment costs."
米尔本在BBC的《劳拉·昆斯伯格周日访谈》节目中表示，他同意财政大臣约翰·希利最近决定放缓不同年龄段国家最低工资趋同的步伐。
Milburn told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme he agreed with a recent move by Chancellor John Healey to slow down the equalisation of the national minimum wage across age groups.
工党在其宣言中承诺取消“歧视性年龄档次”，缩小成人最低工资与18至20岁青年工资之间的差距。
Labour had pledged in its manifesto to remove "discriminatory age bands" and close the gap between adult minimum wages and pay for 18 to 20-year-olds.
但在他的预算案中，希利表示，该年龄段的时薪将于明年4月从10.85英镑上涨至11.27英镑，而21岁及以上人群的时薪将从12.71英镑增至13.21英镑。
But in his Budget, Healey said pay for that age group would rise from £10.85 to £11.27 an hour in April next year while people aged 21 and over will see their wages increase from £12.71 to £13.21.
“我理解原因，因为没人希望看到年轻工人拿着贫困工资，”米尔本说，但他表示这“给政府带来了大量成本”。“我认为我们必须非常仔细地审视趋同问题，”他说。米尔本表示，他支持政府补贴工资，以鼓励企业雇佣年轻工人。
"I understand why because nobody wants to see young workers on poverty pay," Milburn said, but he said it "imposed a lot of costs on [the] government". "I think we have got to look very carefully at the convergence issue," he said. Milburn said he supported the government subsidising wages to encourage businesses to take on young workers.
“因为现在的年轻人进入职场时往往带着心理健康问题、多动症或焦虑症，如果你是小企业，这就是你必须承担的成本，”他说。
"Because young people today are walking into the workplace often with a mental health problem, ADHD or anxiety, if you're a small business that's a cost that you've got to absorb," he said.
“国家有责任帮助他们解决这个问题。”周日，工作与养老金大臣帕特·麦克法登表示，政府将把针对18至24岁申领普惠金人群的补贴就业保障计划延长。
"The state has a responsibility to help them with that." On Sunday, Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said the government would extend its subsidised jobs guarantee scheme for 18 to 24-year-olds who are claiming Universal Credit.
领取福利满12个月的人将有资格参加，门槛从原来的18个月降低，该计划将面向英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士的人员开放。
People who have been on benefits for 12 months will be eligible, down from 18 months and the scheme would be available for people in England, Scotland and Wales.
麦克法登表示，该计划保障工人获得为期六个月的工作，“将帮助超过9万名年轻人在2029年3月前就业”。
McFadden said the scheme, which guarantees workers a six-month job, "will help more than 90,000 young people into work by March 2029".
但惠特利表示，“他们在这边给企业增税，却在那边补贴看起来像工作的岗位，这简直荒谬。直接停止增税就行了”。
But Whately said it is "just absurd that they are taxing businesses here and they're going to subsidise things that look like jobs over here. Just stop doing the taxing".
她说，保守党希望将雇主国民保险缴费成本减半，“因为我跟企业交谈，他们表示非常想雇佣年轻人，但就是负担不起了，工党推出的监管让这变得更难”。
She said the Tories want to halve employer NI costs "because I talk to businesses who say they really want to employ young people but they just can't afford to anymore and the regulation that the Labour Party has put in place has made it harder".
米尔本将表示，如果政府确实打算在五年内逐步降低国民保险缴费，应从商店、酒吧和餐馆等企业开始着手。
Milburn will say that if the government does go ahead with a gradual reduction in NI over five years, it should start with businesses such as shops, bars and restaurants.
零售业和酒店业合计为16至24岁的年轻人提供了37%的就业岗位。
Retail and hospitality together provide 37% of jobs for young people aged between 16 and 24.