§ Ms. Clare Shortasked the Paymaster General how many people were engaged in the following special employment and training measures: community programme, enterprise allowance scheme, YTS, young workers scheme, community industry, job release scheme and job splitting scheme for each month of June to August 1983, inclusive, and March to October 1984, inclusive; if he will give the same information, with the addition of the new workers scheme, for the end of November 1986 and December 1986; and what were the estimated effects on the numbers of people registered as unemployed for each of the relevant months.
§ Mr. TrippierThe number of people engaged in these employment and training measures and the estimated effect on unemployment for these dates are:
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YWS NWS JRS JSS CI CP/CEP EAS YTS Estimated 1effect July 68 — 90 0.935 8 121 38 275 222 August 65 — 89 0.954 8 123 40 277 218 September 70 — 86 0.969 8 123 39 287 210 October 71 — 84 0.990 8 126 39 291 209 1986 November 6 28 28 0.235 8 246 71 347 297 December 2 31 27 0.250 8 248 74 340 298 YTS is a training measure and there are no estimates of its direct effect on unemployment. 1 Estimated effect on unemployment count excluding YTS.