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Mr. Rhodes James
asked the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the total cost of temporary employment schemes since 1975; and how many temporary jobs have been created by such schemes.
Mr. Golding
The special employment measures provide a range of opportunities for people who would otherwise be unemployed, including training and work experience as well as temporary jobs. Those measures which have created temporary jobs are community industry, the job creation programme and the special temporary employment programme. From April 1975 to September 1978 the estimated gross expenditure on these programmes was £ l78·9 million and the number of people provided with temporary jobs an estimated 225,000.