Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 December 1986.
According to an answer in Hansard on 6 November, only 0·7 per cent. of those interviewed had been placed in jobs. Is this not an indictment of the Paymaster General's policy, particularly as proper jobs in the real world are needed into which people can be slotted, instead of the palliatives that he has presented to the House?