To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services whether individuals with transitional protection of benefit will retain their transitional benefit if they take a place on the community programme and leave when the adult training scheme is introduced in September.

Earnings from work done on the community programme will reduce or remove transitional additions in the same way as any other earnings. People not in full-time work who remain entitled to income support and transitional protection while they are on the community programme will not lose the protection as a result of leaving the community programme and joining employment training.