HC Deb 19 December 1985 vol 89 c303W
Mr. Wainwright

asked the Paymaster General what is the minimum number of job hours per week that must be available in order for a part-time community programme place to be included as a vacancy in the monthly unfilled vacancy totals.

Mr. Alan Clark

Community programme jobs must be for at least two days or 16 hours if spread over more than two days.

Mr. Wainwright

asked the Paymaster General how many of the 24,000 community programme places listed as unfilled vacancies for November 1985 were for part-time jobs.

Mr. Alan Clark

There were about 18,000 unfilled part-time community programme vacancies on 8 November. Part-time jobs on the programme are defined as those involving work for less than 35 hours per week.