§ Mrs. FyfeTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many fatalities, major injuries, and minor injuries occurred to those in training on YTS programmes during(a) 1 April 1985 to 31 March 1986, (b) 1 April 1986 to 31 March 1987 and (c) 1 April 1987 to 31 March 1988; and what was the incidence rate for fatal and major accidents per 100,000 at risk during each of these years.
§ Mr. Cope[holding answer 27 January 19891: The following table sets out the YTS accident figures and incidence rates per 100,000 trainees on YTS for fatal and major accidents.
to families whose daughter or son died whilst on a YTS during 1988 and (c)j the lowest and highest payment made in relation to (a) and (b) above.
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§ Mr. Cope[holding answer 25 January 1989]: Payments made to YTS trainees or their families in these circumstances are not intended as compensation.
Managing agents and training managers are contractually obliged to obtain insurance cover for any claims for compensation or damages.
Until 11 April 1988 the Training Commission paid industrial death grants under its analogous industrial injuries scheme to ensure that trainees' families received the same amount of benefit as families of employees would have received under the (then) Department of Health and Social Security scheme. Death grants were payable at the standard rates of £52 for single parent and £78 for two parents. During the period 1 January 1988 to 10 April 1988 there was one death for which a death grant was claimed and a payment of £52 was made. The Training Commission grant was discontinued from 11 April 1988 when the equivalent grant in respect of employees was abolished by social security regulations.
The Training Agency continues to pay industrial injuries benefit to trainees on the same basis as that paid
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Date of death Circumstances of death Training Agency area office Youth opportunities programme 24 October 1980 Road traffic accident Wrexham 1 December 1980 Clothing caught fire Grampian and Tayside 27 January 1981 Electrocuted Wrexham 13 March 1981 Struck by gas cylinder Birmingham 16 June 1981 Trapped between vehicles Swansea 1 October 1981 Road traffic accident Lancashire 2 October 1981 Struck by load which fell off fork lift truck Nottingham 24 November 1981 Road traffic accident Highlands and Islands 11 December 1981 Collapsed while clearing snow London 8 January 1982 Fell from rope hoist Humberside 14 May 1982 Drowned while swimming during lunch break High Wycombe 16 July 1982 Tractor overturned Devon and Cornwall 20 July 1982 Drowned while swimming during lunch break Glasgow 14 October 1982 Clothing caught fire Lanarkshire 2 December 1982 Trapped in machinery Cardiff 20 December 1982 Hit by moving machinery Sheffield 1 April 1983 Road traffic accident Beds and Cambs 16 April 1983 Tractor accident Coventry 12 July 1983 Drowned while swimming during lunch break Lanarkshire Youth training scheme 27 June 1983 Road traffic accident Leicester 7 September 1983 Fell down mine shaft Newcastle 12 October 1983 Fork lift truck accident Lanarkshire 1 March 1984 Tractor accident Gloucester 27 July 1984 Road traffic accident Lothian and Borders 22 August 1984 Road traffic accident Horsham 24 September 1984 Dumper truck overturned Avon 12 February 1985 Clothing caught fire Cheshire 26 February 1985 Trapped under vehicle when jack collapsed Ayrshire, Dumfries Galloway 29 July 1985 Electrocuted Lancashire 20 August 1985 Road traffic accident Greater Manchester Central 7 May 1986 Road traffic accident Wrexham 14 May 1986 Fall from ladder Avon 30 June 1986 Road traffic accident Chatham 3 October 1986 Loading materials—trapped neck Grampian and Tayside 11 November 1986 Trapped between trailer roof and workshop roof beam Wrexham 26 November 1986 Electrocuted Gloucester 23 December 1986 Road traffic accident Wakefield 4 March 1987 Fell into grain silo on farm Wrexham 18 March 1987 Road traffic accident Ipswich 14 April 1987 Road traffic accident Dudley/Sandwell (b) 17 August 1987 Trapped under tractor wheels Derby 23 October 1987 Struck by material falling off fork lift truck Leeds/North Yorks 16 November 1987 Tractor accident Devon/Cornwall 14 December 1987 Trapped in silage machine Gwent 12 January 1988 Road traffic accident Renfrew, Dumbarton and Argyll 13–15 January 1988 Lost at sea Devon/Cornwall (exact date not known) to employees. The total amount paid out in 1988 was £534,092. Details of the highest and lowest amounts paid could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. NellistTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list in theOfficial Report, the (a) date, (b) cause of fatality, (c) parliamentary constituency and (d) amount of compensation received for each death on youth opportunities programme and YTS since the schemes' inceptions, to the latest available date.
§ Mr. Cope[holding answer 25 January 1989]: The available information for fatalities on the youth opportunities programme and YTS is provided in the table. Information on the location is available only by Training Agency area. The Training Agency and its predecessors do not pay compensation, but under YTS managing agents and training managers are contractually obliged to obtain insurance to cover any claims to compensation or damages. Until 11 April 1988 the Training Agency paid an industrial death grant equivalent to the payments received from DHSS had the young people been employees.
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Date of death Circumstances of death Training Agency area office 5 August 1988 (c) Explosion in garage Cardiff 17 August 1988 (c) Fall from ladder Marches 18 August 1988 (c) Struck by arm and bucket of mechanical digger Grampian and Tayside 14 September 1988 (c) Road traffic accident Staffs 6 October 1988 (c) Road traffic accident Central and Fife 2 November 1988 (c) Road traffic accident Merseyside 2 November 1988 (c) Flash during fire at paint manufacturers Humberside