asked the Paymaster General whether he will publish in the Official Report a table

asked the Paymaster General what are the latest estimated percentage register effects on the unemployment count of the following special employment measures: (a) community programme, (b) enterprise allowance scheme, (c) young workers scheme, (d) community industry, (e) job release scheme and (f) job splitting scheme.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to calculate precisely the effect of the unemployment count on employment measures. The people engaged in (b)(c)(e) and (f) in the question are all engaged in ordinary work in the mainstream of the economy and have left the unemployment count in the same way as other unemployed people who find a job. The community programme (a) also provides real work at normal pay levels for long-term unemployed people. We make showing the median gross weekly earnings of full-time adult males and females at the latest available date and the upper and lower deciles as a percentage of the median; and if he will provide comparable figures for 1973 and 1979.

The most recent information relates to April 1986 and is published in table 30 of part B of the 1986 New Earnings Survey report. This table also includes figures for 1979. Figures for 1973 are published in table 30 of part B of the 1983 survey report. Copies of these reports are available in the Library.