Re-establishment Centres

HC Deb 21 May 1981 vol 5 cc159-60W

Mr. Field

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will update the answer given to the hon. Member for Birkenhead on 11 June 1979, Official Report, c. 120, relating to re-establishment centres.

Mr. Rossi

The information is as follows:

	1979	1980
a. Number passing through centres	2,209	2,935
b. Completed courses	1,372	1,640
c. Did not complete course	837	1,295
d. Discharged to employment	751	478
e. Discharged to await placing by Employment Officers	621	1,162
Note: The figures at c. include men going on to courses run by the Manpower Services Commission	(32)	(71)
Proportion in employment six months after discharge:	per cent.
a. of those at b.	49	Not
of those at d.	55	available
of those at c.	26.5	until summer 1981