Details of the Future Jobs Fund were announced in Budget 2009 on page 102, box 5.4. The third bullet point states:
‘funding for local authorities and partners to take forward the creation of 100,000 new jobs in socially useful activity. 10,000 of these will be green jobs;’
and the final paragraph goes on to say:
‘To support communities most affected by rising unemployment, the Government will allocate additional funding for local authorities to provide a further 50,000 jobs in areas of high unemployment across the country.’
A copy of this Budget has been placed in the library and can also be accessed at:
www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/bud09_completereport_2520.pdf
We will continue to review the support that is available for jobseekers, and decisions on the Department's future expenditure limits and spending allocations will be taken at the Spending Review.