§ Mr. Ron Daviesasked the Paymaster General, pursuant to his reply of 10 February, if unemployed women who have been signing on as unemployed at an unemployment benefit office for six months or more, but who are ineligible for benefit, or who are only in indirect receipt of benefit via an unemployed spouse, will be eligible for a training allowance under the job training scheme.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe allowances paid to participants in the new job training scheme are at a rate equivalent to the amount of benefit in payment immediately before joining the scheme. Men and women not receiving benefit immediately before training will not, therefore, be eligible for a training allowance. They will become entitled to an allowance if a later change of circumstances would have entitled them to benefit had they remained unemployed. Benefits received by the spouse of a trainee who is not getting an allowance will not be affected.