§ Mr. Adleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he is satisfied that jobs created under the various schemes for creating employment, have provided permanent jobs.
§ Mr. GoldingYes, in so far as any job can be described as"permanent ".
§ Mr. Anthony Grantasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the number of new jobs created by Government action in each of the last four years; if he will express these as a percentage of the unemployed as a whole in each of the last four years; what was the average cost per new job so created; and if he will express this as a percentage of the cost of unemployment benefit paid.
§ Mr. Golding, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 15 March 1979; Vol. 964, c. 310], gave the following information:
The special employment measures for which I am responsible are not designed to create permanent jobs but to provide temporary employment or training opportunities for the unemployed. The information set out below relates to those temporary jobs or temporary support for the expansion of jobs in industry.
Departments, which are designed to create permanent jobs.