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Employment Schemes

Volume 175: debated on Monday 25 June 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Employment which of the Government schemes to increase employment he has assessed as producing the best results.

Indicators of the cost-effectiveness of Government measures to assist unemployed people into work are published in chapter 6 of "The Government's Expenditure Plans 1990–91 to 1992–93" (Cm. 1006). Since the nature of the measures and the characteristics of their respective client groups differ, it is not possible to single out any one as producing results which are better than the others.