§ Mr. Maurice Macmillanasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he can give an assurance that the scheme he is at present considering to replace the temporary employment subsidy will have a lower displacement effect; and how many jobs his Department estimates have been destroyed through displacement effects since the inception of the temporary employment subsidy scheme.
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§ Mr. Golding, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 8 March 1979; Vol. 963, c. 765], gave the following information:
The new scheme to support short-time working will not result in the displacement of jobs elsewhere because subsidy will not be paid to support productive employment, and we estimate that the for the restructuring of a firm's activities proposed scheme of wage-related support will have a displacement effect considerably lower than that of the temporary employment subsidy scheme.
Surveys of the temporary employment subsidy have shown that there probably is some job loss among non-subsidised producers but it is not possible to give a precise estimate of its extent.