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Finding jobs for the unemployed

The government's controversial plan to pay private companies to find jobs for the long-term unemployed has been put under pressure by the rise in unemployment, which is likely to pass the two million mark. Tom Riall, chief executive at Serco Civil Government - one of the companies bidding for the contracts, discusses why there has been a "short pause" in the tendering process.

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