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Mr. Tom Benyon
asked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the total grant and Government support items of cash to Remploy.
Mr. Alison
Remploy is a company specially set up by central Government to provide jobs for severely disabled people and receives a subvention from the Department of Employment through the Manpower Services Commission. In the 1981–82 financial year this grant amounted to £45·688 million, made up as follows:
| £ | |
| Revenue to cover trading losses arising out of the extra costs of employing severely disabled people | 39,529,000 |
| Grant for capital expenditure: | |
| On land and buildings | 3,185,000 |
| On plant and equipment | 2,424,000 |
| On vehicles | 550,000 |
| 45,688,000 |