Youth employment levy funding
De Rossa asked how much levy funding had been made available to the Agency. Kavanagh cited government provisions of £9.02 million for 1982 and £15 million for 1983, within wider departmental allocations for youth training and employment.
asked the Minister for Labour the funds made available to the Youth Employment Agency from the youth employment levy since its inception.
Comment on this
: The Youth Employment Agency was established in March 1982. The youth employment levy was introduced in April 1982. In 1982 the Government included a sum of £9.02 million in respect of expenditure by the agency in the provision of £41.0 million (Subhead W) for Training and Employment of Young Persons in the Department of Labour's Estimate for that year. This year the Government included £15 million for such expenditure in the provision of £77 million (Subhead T) in respect of the same services in my Department's Estimate for 1983.
These provisions are over and above the allocations from these subheads in these years to other bodies providing training and employment services for young persons.
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