§ Mr. Wrigglesworthasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will ask the Manpower Services Commission to find out what employment was obtained by the 100 ex-trainees who completed courses in engineering skills at skillcentres in Cleveland county in 1974, 1975 and the first three months of 1976, but who were not known subsequently to have found employment in their training trade.
§ Mr. GoldingWe have consulted the MSC which cannot undertake to obtain the information requested. It informs us that unless ex-trainees are placed by the 99W Employment Service or offer the information themselves, it is costly and unacceptably time-consuming to attempt to ascertain for every individual what employment is obtained after training.
The Training Services Agency makes every reasonable effort to obtain information about the post-training careers of skillcentre trainees and, from time to time, conducts surveys to enable a check to be kept on the subsequent employment of trainees.