1 July 2011 Last updated at 03:16 ET 
Mr Duncan Smith will say businesses are too quick to look abroad when they need staff
UK businesses should recruit more unemployed young Britons rather than relying on labour from abroad, the work and pensions secretary is to say.
In a speech in Spain, Iain Duncan Smith will say that if government policy has prepared young people for work, "we need businesses to give them a chance".
Otherwise, he will say, they will be lost to dependency and hopelessness.
Official figures suggest almost 90% of the 400,000 jobs created in the UK in the past year went to foreign workers.
In 2007, then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged to create "British jobs for British workers".
But he was widely criticised when it emerged that about 80% of the jobs created in the UK under Labour went to foreign migrants.
'Blunt message'In a speech to the Spanish Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies in Madrid, Mr Duncan Smith will say that the government is determined to create an immigration system that gives unemployed people "a level playing field".
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End Quote Iain Duncan Smith Work and Pensions SecretaryIf government and business pull together on this, I believe we can finally start to give our young people a chance"
"If we do not get this right then we risk leaving more British citizens out of work, and the most vulnerable group who will be the most affected are young people," he will say.
"But government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance, and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
"If government and business pull together on this, I believe we can finally start to give our young people a chance."
BBC political correspondent Iain Watson says that as well as delivering a "blunt message to British employers", the speech would be aimed at the Lib Dems - some of whom had been critical of Conservative rhetoric on immigration.
'Vital role'He said Mr Duncan Smith did not want concerns over language to translate into a lack of commitment to the policy.
Mr Duncan Smith will say that the previous Labour government's "slack attitude to immigration" has resulted in businesses being too quick to look abroad - including outside the EU - for staff.
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End Quote David Frost British Chambers of CommerceThere's a stream of highly able eastern European migrants who are able to take those jobs and that's why they're taking them on"
He will say that while immigration "plays a vital role" in helping bridge certain skills gaps, there are many foreign nationals in low-skilled or semi-skilled jobs that could easily be done by unemployed Britons.
And in many cases, people gaining entry to the UK as high-skilled workers end up doing unskilled jobs once they are here, he will say.
Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, David Frost, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that business leaders knew there was a problem with youth unemployment.
But he added that employers had businesses to run and needed the "best people".
"They expect young people to come forward to them who are able to read, write, communicate and have a strong work ethic and too often that's not the case," he said.
"And there's a stream of highly able eastern European migrants who are able to take those jobs and that's why they're taking them on."
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