Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Harry Barnes (Labour), on Tuesday, 14 July 1998, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 16 members in total.

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EMPLOYMENT SERVICE IN NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE

That this House strongly opposes the Employment Service's proposed closures of the job centres in Dronfield and Eckington in the North East Derbyshire constituency on the grounds that both unemployed and employed residents of Dronfield, the largest town in North East Derbyshire, as well as in Eckington and adjoining Killamarsh parishes which have a similar total population size, deserves an adequate range of employment and benefits services and that the proposed alternative facilities would impose a large and unfair proportionate cost in bus fares on job seekers who would have to travel longer distances and who can least afford it; believes that the closure of these job centres, the only two closures in the relevant Employment Services region, would undermine regeneration initiatives in the area; notes, in particular, that the Dronfield Employment Centre is under immediate threat of closure and that the lease on the building used by that centre can be extended; and urges the Employment Service to extend the lease whilst it conducts a meaningful consultation exercise with the job centre users and others into the impact of the proposed closures and to investigate potential alternative accommodation for the centres if this is felt to be necessary.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1551 

Session

1997-98

Subjects

Closures Jobcentres Derbyshire Employment Service

Link

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