§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the recruitment statistics for each month of employment training, specifying by region and for Great Britain as a whole, the number of(a) employment training starters, (b) employment training leavers, (c) trainees on community programme wages and (d) the cumulative total of trainees who are on benefit plus training allowances.
§ Mr. NichollsThe information requested for(a) (b) and (c) is given in the following tables. The number of employment training leavers is not available by region. The information for (d) is provided as the number in training each month and not as a cumulative total.
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Region September October November December ET Starts ET Leavers1 ET Starts ET Leavers1 ET Starts ET Leavers1 ET Starts ET Leavers1 East Midlands and Eastern 1,771 — 2,728 — 2,860 — 2,202 — Yorks and Humber 2,974 — 4,523 — 5,509 — 4,402 — North West 3,029 — 4,962 — 5,544 — 4,145 — Northern 2,395 — 3,219 — 3,646 — 2,895 — Wales 1,381 — 1,967 — 2,649 — 2,172 — Scotland 2,331 — 3,120 — 4,045 — 3,894 — Great Britain 21,462 1,000 31,083 5,000 35,202 7,000 28,867 7,000 1 The leavers figures are estimated and relate to trainees who were not transferred from previous programmes.
Table 2 Employment training; trainees on CP wages and ET allowances Monthly totals: September to December 1988 September October November December Region CP wages ET allowances CP wages ET allowances CP wages ET allowances CP wages ET allowances South east 4,353 3,799 3,367 5,164 2,614 6,253 1,924 7,049 London 6,691 4,602 5,402 6,325 4,174 9,220 3,295 10,510 South west 6,,414 2,987 5,031 4,266 3,670 5,742 2,859 6,847 West midlands 15,104 5,221 11,992 7,678 9,109 10,114 6,706 12,066 East midlands 9,628 3,898 7,646 5,704 5,971 7,569 4,639 8,943 Yorkshire and Humberside 13,260 9,764 12,355 10,182 9,454 14,464 7,062 15,999 North west 20,339 6,668 16,523 9,878 12,668 13,413 9,778 15,484 Northern 19,863 4,425 16,212 7,069 12,839 9,667 9,676 11,845 Wales 11,770 2,360 9,020 4,437 7,134 5,996 5,400 7,394 Scotland 13,996 4,361 12,763 6,608 10,439 9,095 8,621 11,660 Great Britain 121,418 48,085 100,311 67,311 78,072 91,533 59,960 107,797
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give up-to-date statistics showing how many unemployed people have been referred to employment training agents since the start of the scheme; how many have had action plans completed; and how
Employment training: Referrals, action plans and training manager starts Monthly totals 1988 Referrals to training agents Agreed action plans Starts with training managers Region September October November December September October November December September October November December South East London 20,725 17,914 16,816 14,103 3,196 3,147 3,585 3,334 1,533 2,050 1,987 1,707 3,172 4,166 4,660 4,388 2,503 3,057 3,110 2,405 South West 5,131 4,380 3,873 3,475 1,706 2,257 2,389 1,796 1,075 1,724 2,023 1,742 West Midlands 10,347 8,652 9,111 8,159 4,345 4,363 4,950 4,563 2,470 3,733 3,829 3,303 East Midlands and Eastern 7,533 6,687 6,278 4,642 3,085 3,618 3,639 2,632 1,771 2,728 2,860 2,202 Yorkshire and Humberside 10,120 9,080 8,940 7,552 4,176 5,132 5,660 4,452 2,974 4,523 5,509 4,402 North West 12,732 11,402 11,132 9,150 4,119 5,830 6,417 5,151 3,029 4,962 5,544 4,145 Northern 12,453 7,690 6,434 5,661 4,389 4,351 4,467 3,597 2,395 3,219 3,646 2,895 Wales 5,225 5,383 5,697 5,092 1,948 2,500 3,076 2,433 1,381 1,967 2,649 2,172 Scotland 12,259 11,678 12,126 10,472 4,146 4,959 6,580 5,485 2,331 3,120 4,045 3,894 Great Britain 96,525 82,866 80,407 68,306 34,282 40,323 45,423 37,831 21,462 31,083 35,202 28,867 Notes: 1. The September figures include some referrals made in the two weeks prior to the official launch date. 2. The figures for referrals to training agents are provided by the employment service. However, the regional boundaries are not always co-terminus with those of the training agency. 3. Some of those people for whom an action plan was not agreed, may have been referred to alternative opportunities.
§ Mr. HendersonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many employment training places are contracted for each employment office area; and of those places how many are from the new job training scheme and how many from the community programme.
§ Mr. NichollsThe information is not available in the precise form requested. The following table gives the number of contracted employment training places by
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§ Mr. NichollsThe information requested is set out in the table.
Training Agency area. Information on how many of those places moved forward from the new job training scheme, the community programme or are new places, is not available.
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Employment training—contracted places Area office Contracted places South East Region Berkshire and Oxfordshire 1,833 Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire 2,553 Essex 3,595 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 3,221 Kent 3,791 Surrey 1,155 Sussex 3,020 London Region Inner London North 7,316 Inner London South 4,745 London East 2,890 London North 4,141 London South 1,729 London West 1,467 South West Region Avon 3,873 Devon and Cornwall 7,090 Dorset and Somerset 2,983 Gloucester and Wiltshire 2,927 West Midlands Region Birmingham and Solihull 10,797 Coventry and Warwickshire 4,653 Dudley and Sandwell 4,936 Staffordshire 4,939 The Marches, Hereford/Worcester 4,195 Wolverhampton and Walsall 5,410 East Midlands and Eastern Region Bedfordshire and Cambrideshire 2,055 Derbyshire 4,401 Leicestershire and Northamptonshire 4.408 Lincolnshire 2,032 Norfolk and Suffolk 4,125 Nottinghamshire 5,453 Yorkshire and Humberside Region Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees 6,300 Humberside 5,787 North Yorkshire and Leeds 6,655 Sheffield and Rotherham 8,118 Wakefield, Doncaster and Barnsley 6,882 North West Region Cheshire 5,048 Cumbria 2,170 Lancashire 7,179 Central Manchester 9,257 Greater Manchester North 6,480 Greater Manchester East 3,901 Merseyside 16,551 Northern Region Cleveland 9,583 County Durham 7,120 Northumberland, North Tyneside and Newcastle 7,511 Sunderland, South Tyneside and Gateshead 9,856 Wales Dyfed and West Glamorgan 6,329 Gwent 3,902 Gwynned, Clwyd and Powys 5,426 Mid and South Glamorgan 8,202 Scotland Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway 4,664 Central and Fife 4,856 Glasgow City 9,854 Grampian and Tayside 4,397 Highlands and Islands 1,700 Lanarkshire 4,730 Lothian and Borders 5,258 Renfrew, Dumbarton and Argyll 6,014