§ Mr. Lawrenceasked the Secretary of State for Employment how the community programme will assist people with managerial and supervisory skills who have been unemployed for long periods; and how they will be recruited into the programme.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe Manpower Services Commission estimates that the new programme will create between 10,000 and 15,000 jobs for people with managerial and supervisory skills. Those jobs will be advertised by the Professional and Executive Recruitment service of MSC in order to ensure that they receive the widest possible circulation. It will be open to private employment agencies as well as Professional and Executive Recruitment to submit people who have been unemployed for the requisite period to those vacancies and to receive a fee if their candidates are selected for the posts. In addition, those sponsoring schemes will be free to use press advertising, to make direct contacts with private agencies or to use other methods of recruitment. But if they choose to do so they will, of course, have to pay for those services like anyone else.