§ Mr. Wm. Rossasked the Secretary of State for Employment what would be the total cost of increasing the allowance paid to youth opportunities programme trainees to £27 per week from the date when other national insurance welfare benefits were raised to the end of the present financial year and for the next full year if all the places available were taken.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe total of increasing the allowance paid to trainees on the youth opportunities programme in Great Britain to £27 from November 1980 would be £8 million in the current financial year, and about £30 million in 1981–82 for the scale of programme my right hon. Friend announced in November.