§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many extra staff have been taken on to deal with (a) job creation, (b) temporary employment subsidy, and (c) work experience schemes.
§ Mr. GoldingI am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that at 1st January 1977 the number of staff engaged on the Job Creation Programme was 108 and on the Work Experience Programme, 90.5. In addition there were respectively 28 and nine staff on period or casual appointments.
At the same date the number of staff in my Department engaged on administering the temporary employment subsidy was 45.5.
These figures take no account of the staff costs that would have been incurred in the payment of unemployment benefit and supplementary benefit but for the introduction of these schemes.