§ Mr. Jim Callaghan asked the Secretary of State for Employment what progress has been made in promoting the job opportunities scheme of the Manpower Services Commission in Middleton and Prestwich.
§ Mr. Golding:I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that, from 1st April 1978 to the end of December 1978, 86 places for young people were created under the youth opportunities programmes in Middleton and Prestwich, and a total of 74 young people had joined the programme by the end of December.
Good progress is being made in the Middleton and Prestwich area towards securing the objective that no Easter or summer school leaver of 1978 who remains unemployed at Easter 1979 should
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be without the offer of a suitable place on the youth opportunities programme. On 7th December 1978 there were 38 unemployed school leavers covered by this undertaking in the Middleton and Prestwich area who had not received such an offer but on the same date 125 places in the programme were available in the area.