§ Mr. Wainwrightasked the Paymaster General what is the minimum number of job hours per week that must be available in order for a part-time community programme place to be included as a vacancy in the monthly unfilled vacancy totals.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkCommunity programme jobs must be for at least two days or 16 hours if spread over more than two days.
§ Mr. Wainwrightasked the Paymaster General how many of the 24,000 community programme places listed as unfilled vacancies for November 1985 were for part-time jobs.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThere were about 18,000 unfilled part-time community programme vacancies on 8 November. Part-time jobs on the programme are defined as those involving work for less than 35 hours per week.