HC Deb 06 July 1987 vol 119 cc7-8W
Mr. Alan Williams

asked the Secretary of State for Employment in each year since 1979 what has been Remploy's (a) turnover, (b) profitability, (c) grant from Government and (d) grant per employee from Government.

Mr. Lee

Remploy's turnover in each year since 1979 was as follows:

£ million
1978–79 29.9
1979–80 33.1
1980–81 39.0
1981–82 41.7
1982–83 49.4
1983–84 55.6
1984–85 62.7
1985–86 70.8
1986–87 177.6
1 Provisional.

Total average employees by product group
1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987
Head Ofice 214 191 195 207 166 150
Furniture and Medical 2,876 3,627 3,587 3,398 3,370 3,196
Leather and Textiles 3,436 3,668 3,594 3,735 3,763 3,624
Packaging and Assembly 4,331 3,639 3,751 4,023 3,969 4,047
Total Employees 10,857 11,125 11,127 11,363 11,268 11,017
of which Section 2 disabled 8,448 8,742 8,730 8,915 8,900 8,944
Information is not available by product group prior to 1982.

Remploy does not make a profit, but the excess of expenditure over income generated through sales for each year was as follows:

£ million
1978–79 22.6
1979–80 27.2
1980–81 34.9
1981–82 42.2
1982–83 43.4
1983–84 46.3
1984–85 49.3
1985–86 53.0
1986–87 150.9
1 Provisional

The level of revenue subvention from Government for each year was as follows:

£ million
1978–79 22.6
1979–80 27.2
1980–81 35.2
1981–82 39.2
1982–83 42.4
1983–84 44.6
1984–85 47.8
1985–86 48.5
1986–87 147.9
1 Provisional.

Dividing the total revenue subvention by the average number of disabled employees in each year, gives the following results:

£
1978–79 2,800
1979–80 3,311
1980–81 4,304
1981–82 4,640
1982–83 4,850
1983–84 5,109
1984–85 5,362
1985–86 5,449
1986–87 15,356
1 Provisional.

Mr. Alan Williams

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were employed by Remploy in each year since 1979, and in what product areas.

Mr. Lee

The average number of people employed by Remploy by product group in each year since 1982 was as follows: