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Job Refusals And Social Benefit

Volume 448: debated on Tuesday 21 February 1984

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asked Her Majesty's Government:What evidence they have of young people on unemployment benefit refusing jobs on the ground that the difference between benefit and wages is not worth working for.

The Minister of State, Privy Council Office, and Minister for the Arts
(The Earl of Gowrie)

The statistical records of refusals of jobs held by unemployment benefit offices do not distinguish reasons for refusal.