Community Programme

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 December 1986.

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Photo of Mr Andrew Bennett Mr Andrew Bennett , Denton and Reddish 12:00, 16 December 1986

Will the Minister accept that what young adults want, like everyone else, is real jobs? However, at least the community programme has ensured that many of them can do something useful and in many cases they can get training while on the schemes. Does the Minister also agree that it is unfair of the Government to stop young people in the trial areas from continuing on the community programme unless they have been out of work for more than 12 months? Will he accept that the Government are again penalising those young people who desperately want jobs and forcing them to go on a training scheme, when many of them have been on the youth opportunities programme and youth training scheme and have had their fill of training? They want jobs from the Government.