§ Mr. Monroasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the cash allocation to the Manpower Services Commission in Scotland for 1978–79 per head of the registered unemployed in each region in February 1978.
§ Mr. Golding, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 13 March 1978; Vol. 946, col. 70], gave the following information:
The estimate of the Manpower Services Commission's expenditure in Scotland in 1978–79 is £48.5 million, equivalent to £263 per head of the number of registered unemployed persons in Scotland in February 1978.
This estimate covers the cost of those MSC services in Scotland where these can be separately identified: the jobcentres, employment offices, rehabilitation centres and other offices of the employment service; the skillcentres and offices of the training services; the allowances, fees and expenses of trainees and rehabilitees; the office of the MSC in Scotland; and the youth opportunities programme.
The MSC also operates certain services in Great Britain as a whole which are beneficial to unemployed persons and others in Scotland but whose costs could not be broken down territorially except on an arbitrary basis. Included in this category are the Professional and Executive Recruitment Service operating nationally the industrial training boards related to industries rather than countries, the employment transfer scheme which by its nature gives rise to expenditure in different locations and the central and support services of the Manpower Services Commission.
It is regretted that information is not available to break down the identifiable 212W per capita costs on a regional basis within Scotland.