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Employment Agencies (Licence Fee)

Volume 949: debated on Tuesday 9 May 1978

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asked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he is aware that the new standard employment agency licence fee of £72 is uneconomic for many of the smaller specialist employment agencies, particularly those concerned with charitable purposes; and whether he will undertake to introduce within 12 months an appropriate reduced charge for small turnover agencies.

We have considered proposals that licence fees under the Employment Agencies Act should be scaled according to turnover but have not so far found this to be a practicable proposition. However, we shall look at

Institute for the Blind and with the Royal Blind School, Edinburgh. The training occupations include audio-typing, shorthand typing, telephone switchboard operating, computer programming and as physiotherapists. In addition training is provided in London, Shrewsbury and Edinburgh in piano-tuning and in a light engineering course—machine operating and engineering inspection—is available at Letchworth—Herts—Skillcentre. It is estimated that 250 blind people were trained in 1977 under these special facilities.