§ Mr. Burtasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he is satisfied with the operation of the rule that people on notice of redundancy are excluded from taking up vacancies created under the terms of the job release scheme, if their notice expires some time after the vacancy occurs; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkYes. It is only by insisting that the expiry date of the replacement worker's notice period should be no later than the leaving date of the job release scheme applicant that we can be sure that the replacement worker would otherwise be wholly unemployed on the day the applicant's job falls vacant, and that the scheme is therefore achieving its objective—the provision of extra jobs for unemployed people.