Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 22 Hydref 1991.
The hon. Gentleman totally fails to take into account the range of opportunities that are now available to help unemployed people—opportunities that were not available when the community programme was in existence. There was no employment training then, nor the range of ways in which we now help unemployed people through the Employment Service. This year we shall be helping 840,000 unemployed people, over and above the help that we give to every unemployed person when he or she comes into the job centre to sign on. That is what the hon. Gentleman has to take into account if he is to make a fair comparison.