§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was(a) the number of places available each year, (b) the actual number taken up, (c) the number of people involved in the programme who are presently in employment and (d) the number of different employers involved in the programme, in respect of each pilot workstart programme.
§ Miss WiddecombeWorkstart was piloted in four areas between July 1993 and December 1994: Devon and Cornwall, Kent, Tyneside and south and south-west London. The figures requested are shown in the following table. All available places were taken up. In the survey of employers, published on 12 December 1994, over 80 per cent. of employers interviewed said they intended to keep the workstart employee on after the subsidy ended. The follow-up survey due to report in November 1995 will give more information on this matter. Five thousand places will be available on the further pilots, announced in the Budget, which will begin in April 1995.
Bundesministerium of Justice on 20 February 1995 letter Geschäftzeichen 111 BLA 4038 E 634/88 about the absence of knowledge by the investigators of the public prosecutors office in Frankfurt of whether explosives which led to the crashing of the Pan Am plane got on board the feeder plane in Frankfurt am Main.
§ Mr. NewtonI have been asked to reply.
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§ Mr. DalyellTo aks the Prime Minister what assistance Her Majesty's Government are giving to relatives of the British Lockerbie victims in their presentation of a petition to the European Parliament, drawing attention to six years of effort to find the truth about Lockerbie.
§ Mr. NewtonI have been asked to reply.
We have received no request to assist in this matter.