§ Mr. Peter Bottomleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment why the decision was taken to exclude those working less than 16 hours a week from eligibility for the same rights as full-time employees, unless they had worked eight hours a week for five years for the same
Numbers benefited Scheme Date Wales Great Britain Temporary Employment Subsidy … … 9th December 1977 … 24,256 359,476 TES (Supplement) … … … … 9th December 1977 … 3,010 40,354 included in above figure Job Creation Programme … … … 8th December 1977 … 12,116 118,068 Work Experience Programme … … 10th December 1977 … 5,928 45,284 Recruitment Subsidy for School Leavers … 30th April 1977 … 2,529 30,179 Youth Employment Subsidy … … 9th December 1977 … 2,806 30,864 Job Release Scheme … … … … 6th December 1977 … 1,866 21,051 Small Firms Employment Subsidy … 25th September 1977 … 250 2,575 Job Introduction Scheme for Disabled People. 31st October 1977 … 4 111 Training in Industry* … … … — — — Training Services Agency … … … 31st October 1977 … 2,600 27,700 Special Courses for Young People … 52,355 635,308 * In addition, a number of training places in industry are supported by the special measures programme through industrial training boards. So far, over 33,500 young people have benefited under this scheme in Great Britain as a whole but as statistics for these are maintained on an industry basis and not according to geographic area we cannot say how many were in Wales.