HC Deb 07 December 1993 vol 234 c208W
Mr. Byers

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment for each workstart pilot project, what is the number of places available for unemployed people and the number actually taken up.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

[holding answer 3 December 1993]: Each of the four workstart pilots has funding to place up to 250 long-term unemployed people into employment.

On 23 November the number of people in employment supported under workstart in each pilot area was as follows:

Number
South London 40
East Kent 35
Tyneside 30
Devon and Cornwall 3

The rate of take up in workstart is increasing. The Tyneside training and enterprise council (TEC) is working closely with the local employment service to match individual unemployed people to specific vacancies. The other TEC-run pilot, in Devon and Cornwall, is now adopting a similar approach to improve performance.