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Mr. Prescott
asked the Paymaster General what are the gross and net costs for each financial year since 1982–83 for 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.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke
The gross and estimated net costs are as follows:attempts to estimate how many of those concerned would have found jobs in any event without the schemes. Taking account of this and other factors, the best estimates we have of the so-called percentage effect of the schemes is as follows:
| Employment measure | Estimated effect on unemployment count (per cent. of those on schemes) |
| CP | 93 |
| EAS | 37 |
| YWS | 28 |
| CI | 97 |
| JRS | 88 |
| JSS | 95 |