§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Wales how many of the long-term unemployed people who
Table 1 Local Domestic Tax Bill in First Year of Transition: Wales Number of adults in household (1) Existing average rate bill (2) £ Community charge (£50) per adult) (3) £ Reduced rate bill* (4) £ Total local domestic tax bill (col. 3 and 4) (5) £ Percentage change from existing rate bill (6) per cent. 1 202 50 104 154 -24 2 202 100 104 204 1 3 202 150 104 254 26 4 202 200 104 304 50 * 49 per cent. reduction in average rate bills. 290W
Table 2. Local Domestic Tax Bill had Rates been completely replaced by the Community Charge: Wales Number of adults in household (1) Existing average rate bill (2) £ Community charge (£105 per adult) (3) £ Percentage change from existing rate bill (4) per cent. 1 202 105 -48 2 202 210 4 3 202 315 56 4 202 420 108 have been on Manpower Services Commission schemes in (a) Gwynedd and (b) Wales have subsequently found full-time employment in each year since the schemes inception.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsAvailable information relates to Wales as a whole and is contained in the MSC's second community programme follow-up survey, of November 1985, which covered entrants to the scheme between April and June 1983. This indicated that 21 per cent. of participants in Wales left to go straight into full-time employment.