§ Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for Employment, whether a student who completes his full-time education and whoe parents home is in a non-assisted area and who now intends working in the same, or other, non-assisted area, staying in furnished lodgings or in a "squat" but whose university was in an assisted area can still be entitled to disturbance allowance under the employment transfer scheme; what the average payment under the disturbance allowance is; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. GoldingI am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that, subject to various basic eligibility conditions being satisfied, in order to receive654W Civil Service, (b) local government and (c) public corporations, for each year from 1964 to 1975 are given in Table 1. Within the total employed in the public corporations, it is not possible before 1975 to distinguish separately those employed in the nationalised industries and the Post Office. Data for Great Britain are not readily available and I regret that it has not been possible to construct a similar table on a Great Britain basis. Despite considerable efforts it has not proved possible to obtain figures that would allow meaningful comparison with other EEC countries. I have written to the hon. Member to explain the difficulties.
assistance under the employment transfer scheme, a student who completes full-time education must also have a recognised home area, and the job which has been obtained must be beyond normal daily travelling distance of that home area. In order to establish a home area, an ex-student without dependants has to furnish evidence of ownership or tenancy or property, or must have been resident in one area continuously for a year or more, or for periods aggregating more than half the previous five years. If the home area is established as being in a non-assisted area, no disturbance alowance is payable. If the home area is established as being in an assisted area, a disturbance allowance is payable subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions. One of these conditions is that the ex-student is living in 655W the new area in rented furnished accommodation. The average payment of is not possible to give an assessment of disturbance allowance is not known.