HC Deb 09 May 1989 vol 152 c377W
Mr. Ralph Howell

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he has any plans for setting up a pilot workfare scheme to study workfare systems in the United States of America and Sweden; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Cope

[holding answer 24 April 1989]: We have no such plans. Our priority is to encourage unemployed people to take up the 600,000 to 700,000 existing vacancies.