Restart Scheme

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 Kenneth Clarke Kenneth Clarke Paymaster General (HM Treasury), Secretary of State for Employment 12:00, 16 December 1986

As my hon. Friend says, individuals are placed directly in a job or in training, or they become self-employed, with a subsidy under the enterprise allowance scheme, or they attend a restart course and then try to enter the labour market. One in five of all those who contact stop claiming benefit and cease to be unemployed. A good proportion of these people are returning to the labour market. It is absurd to go through the statistics in minute detail in an effort to knock down this extremely ambitious programme, which aims to give that kind of help.