§ Mr. Stoddartasked the Secretary of State for Employment what would be the cost of reducing the qualifying ages of the job release scheme from 64 to 60 years for men and from 59 to 55 years for women, assuming that the jobs vacated by those taking advantage of the scheme were filled by people on the unemployment register and in receipt of unemployment or supplementary benefit.
§ Mr. Peter Morrison[pursuant to his reply, 5 May 1981, c. 23]: The estimated net cost of the proposal is given below:
Net cost £ milliom 1982–83 165 1983–84 300 1984–85 365 1985–86 350