§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will modify the small firms employment subsidy so that (a) firms employing 200 and fewer will qualify and (b) so that firms of this size operating in a special development area may qualify irrespective of whether they are subsidiaries of companies owned from outside the special development area.
§ Mr. GoldingNo. One of the aims of the small firms employment subsidy scheme was that it should be an experiment to test the effect of a subsidy scheme of this kind on employment. It is not intended to alter the conditions during the life of the experimental scheme.