Weekly Earnings

HC Deb 27 March 1987 vol 113 cc295-6W

Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Paymaster General whether he will publish in the Official Report a table

Gross costs (£ million)1
	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85	1985–86	21986–87
CP	155.00	394.0	524.0	667.0	1,038.0
EAS	2.40	25.0	79.6	104.0	147.0
YWS	41. 00	58.0	41.0	32.0	317.9
CI	23.00	24.0	24.0	24.0	26.0
JRS	211.80	258.0	280.0	187.0	112.0
JSS	0.04	0.3	0.2	0.2	1.0
1 Gross costs excluding administration costs.
2 Estimated.
3 Scheme has now closed; replaced during 1986–87 by the new workers scheme.

Estimated net Exchequer costs per person no longer unemployed (£)
	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85	1985–86	11986–87
CP	2	2	1,950	1,950	2,000
EAS	2	2	2	1,800	1,800
YWS	2	2	2,400	1,400	1,400
CI	2	2	1,450	1,500	1,550
JRS	2	2	1,650	1,850	1,850
JSS	2	2	-200	-150	-150
1 Estimated.
2 Figures are not available.

Mr. Prescott

asked the Paymaster General what are the latest estimated percentage register effects on the unemployment count of the following special employment measures: (a) community programme, (b) enterprise allowance scheme, (c) young workers scheme, (d) community industry, (e) job release scheme and (f) job splitting scheme.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

It is difficult, if not impossible, to calculate precisely the effect of the unemployment count on employment measures. The people engaged in(b) (c) (e) and (f) in the question are all engaged in ordinary work in the mainstream of the economy and have left the unemployment count in the same way as other unemployed people who find a job. The community programme (a) also provides real work at normal pay levels for long-term unemployed people. We make showing the median gross weekly earnings of full-time adult males and females at the latest available date and the upper and lower deciles as a percentage of the median; and if he will provide comparable figures for 1973 and 1979.

Mr. Lee

The most recent information relates to April 1986 and is published in table 30 of part B of the 1986 New Earnings Survey report. This table also includes figures for 1979. Figures for 1973 are published in table 30 of part B of the 1983 survey report. Copies of these reports are available in the Library.