§ Sir Ralph HowellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment which Ministers have visited workstart schemes; which schemes were visited; and when they were each visited. [21127]
§ Miss WiddecombeWorkstart pays a subsidy to employers who recruit very long-term unemployed people. On 5 November 1993, the then Secretary of State for Employment visited Bishop's Move Distribution Service of Broadstairs, Kent, an employer who received a Workstart subsidy under the original pilots, which ended December 1994. Further pilots commenced this month.