Job Finder's Grant (Hansard, 1 November 1994)

HC Deb 01 November 1994 vol 248 c1092W 1092W

§ Mr. Dewar
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he intends to publish a report on the trial testing of the job finder's grant.

§ Miss Widdecombe
Yes.

§ Mr. Dewar
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the area or areas in which the job finder's grant scheme is, or has been, tested, the numbers who have been given a grant and his best estimate of the take-up expressed as a percentage of those eligible to apply.

§ Miss Widdecombe
The job finder's grant pilots are operating in the east midlands and west midlands. Some 3,626 grants have been issued. Information regarding the take-up as a percentage of those eligible to apply is not available.