asked the Secretary of State for Employment what progress has been made in the setting up of a computerised vacancy matching system for use in local employment offices, with particular reference to the information required for the matching registrants' file.

My Department is in discussion with computer bureaux with a view to awarding later this year a contract for an experimental computerised vacancy matching system in part of London. In the meantime we are studying a number of features of the matching system, including the information about registrants which would need to be stored on computer.