§ Mr. AingerTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what steps she is taking to compensate those freight forwarding agents and their staff who will lose their jobs as a direct result of the ending of customs controls between members of the European Community on 1 January 1993.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythWe await the formal publication of a study initiated by the European Commission into the effect on the freight forwarding industry of the removal of customs barriers when the single European market is completed.
Employees dismissed because of redundancy and who satisfy the qualifying conditions may be entitled to redundancy payments under employment protection legislation.
To anyone unfortunate enough to lose his job the Government are now offering a comprehensive range of help and advice. In 1992–93 we are providing almost 1 million places on employment, enterprise and training programmes through the networks of employment service job centres and training and enterprise councils.