§ Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list in the
Number of complete weeks spent in an ERC by people leaving it Number of people leaving after the number of weeks specified in column 1 Number of people terminating prematurely after the number of weeks specified in column 1 Column 3 as percentage of column 2 Column 3 as percentage of total number of clients terminating prematurely* 1 2 3 4 5 0 174 173 99.43 16.08 1 279 260 93.19 24.16 2 230 184 80.00 17.10 3 292 177 60.62 16.45 4 356 118 33.15 10.97 5 525 75 14.29 6.97 6 1,064 43 4.04 4.00 7 1,241 18 1.45 1.67 8+ 3,058 28 0.92 2.60 7,219 1,076 14.91 100.00 * If the full objective of the course has been achieved the client is regarded as having completed his course irrespective of its length, all other leavers are treated as premature terminations.