§ Mr. Nellistasked the Secretary of State for Employment what measures his Department is currently introducing to reduce the level of unemployment in Coventry.
§ Mr. LangThe new package of measures announced in the Budget will significantly benefit Coventry as well as the rest of the country by accelerating the growth of enterprise, boosting employment opportunities for the young and helping the long term unemployed find work. Young people will benefit from the new two year YTS which began on 1 April; the new workers scheme, designed to encourage employers to take on more 18 to 20-year-olds was recently introduced; and the restart programme, to help the long term unemployed back to work, got under way on 1 July.