§ Sir L. Lyleasked the Minister of Labour whether the estimated outlay of about one million sterling on the new Appointments Scheme includes the cost of any newspaper advertising as suggested in Section 89 of the Departmental Committee Report on Higher Appointments.
§ Mr. BevinI understand that the estimate of the annual cost of the Appointments Department, based on the recommendations of Lord Hankey's Committee on Higher Appointments, did not include the cost of newspaper advertisement for the purposes of publicity.
§ Sir L. Lyleasked the Minister of Labour whether the activities of the present Career Research Association now includes, or will include, under the new 512W Appointments Scheme, the placing of men in the professions such as medicine, journalism, literature, advertising, the Church and the Law.
§ Mr. BevinThe placing of persons in employment is not a function of the Careers Research Section of the Appointments Departments. Its main activities relate to the provision of information on the training required for, and the prospects of employment in the professions.
§ Sir L. Lyleasked the Minister of Labour whether, as a guidance on appointments work in general, he can state the number of applicants on the existing registers who have been placed and the number who have not so been; and whether the former figure includes more than one placing of the same men or women.
§ Mr. BevinI am not sure what information my hon. Friend is seeking, but the number of placings effected by the Appointments Department during 1944 was 26,556, while the number of persons without employment and registered for work on 1st January, 1945, was 5,965. The number of places of the same men or women in the above total is not available, but it is relatively small.