Mr. John McKeon:

I will make a couple of points. We are doing a great deal of work in delivering employment services to Ukrainians. Nearly 35,000 Ukrainians are attending regular sessions with our Intreo case officers. Another 8,000 are attending weekly sessions with contracted employment services. We have also referred 8,000 to various programmes. For example, there are 110 Ukrainians in the work placement experience programme. We are engaging intensively with adult Ukrainians to try to support them into work. Some 1,000 are working in construction, more than 2,000 are working in manufacturing, approximately 5,500 are working in hospitality, just under 3,000 are working in retail and just over 1,500 are working in administrative and support sectors. Our Department took on approximately 140, 36 of whom have moved on to permanent jobs elsewhere in the Civil Service. We have just under 100 still working with us and we are delighted to have them. I suspect that the construction firms with the 1,000 Ukrainians are delighted to have the construction staff, as are the employers of the 5,000 in the hospitality sector. If anything, our case officers say Ukrainians are more eager to engage than some of the other people we deal with.