§ Mr. Kirkwoodasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the computer capacity available at Manpower Services Commission regional and area offices in the large companies unit; and how many trainee records can be maintained on computer at each of these offices.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe large companies unit of the MSC's training division does not have a computer to maintain records of trainees. Information about schemes administered by the large companies unit is included amongst the data held by computer systems operating within the network of regional and area offices in the training division.
One system deals with payment of allowances to TOPS and YTS trainees. The second processes data about YTS and provides information on the various local and national schemes and numbers of participants, as well as producing necessary management statistics. The latter system holds, on average, records of 28,000 participants at each area office.