Employment Service

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 November 1987.

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Photo of Clare Short Clare Short , Birmingham, Ladywood 12:00, 17 November 1987

Will the Secretary of State admit that the reorganisaton of the employment service is intended to be used, in combination with the new power to stop benefits for six months if a person leaves a job or refuses a reasonable offer, to force people into schemes that are so low paid and poor that unemployed people will not accept them voluntarily?