§ Mr. Fieldasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons have gained employment under (a) the job rehearsal scheme and (b) job introduction scheme for each year since the schemes' inception.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 7 November 1979, c. 179–80]: I understand from the Manpower Services Commission that since the inception of the job introduction scheme the following numbers of people have been placed in employment:
July 1977—December 1977 166 January 1978—December 1978 1,171 January 1979—September 1979 1,223 The job rehearsal scheme is of longer standing, and is used primarily as a means of enabling certain clients who have 501W attended employment rehabilitation centres to test out the validity of resettlement recommendations. It is not intended as a placement scheme as such, and hence figures for those who subsequently gained employment are not immediately available. However, over the past five years the following numbers of people have undertaken such rehearsals:
January 1974—December 1974 219 January 1975—December 1975 172 January 1976—December 1976 180 January 1977—December 1977 328 January 1978—December 1978 346 January 1979—October 1979 372