§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether Her Majesty's Government plan to take any measures, other than the new tenants' exchange scheme, to improve worker mobility.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe employment transfer scheme and the job search scheme are run by the Manpower Services Commission to help workers move to jobs which cannot be filled by local people. The weekly earnings limit for these schemes was raised on 1 April 1982 from £140 to £190 a week so that moves to jobs requiring greater skills and experience would attract assistance under the schemes.
In the housing field the Government have taken a number of important steps to aid mobility, in addition to the tenants exchange scheme. These were outlined in the Government's reply to the second report 1980–81 from the Environment Committee, Session 1980–81, Cmnd. 8377.