§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland at the latest available date how many(a) men arid (b) women were employed on Action for Community Employment; and how many of them were employed (i) part time or (ii) full time.
§ Mr. NeedhamAt 25 October 5,511 men and 4,888 women were employed on Action for Community Employment. Of these 4,685 men and 1,808 women were in full-time employment and 826 men and 3,080 women were employed part time.
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what sums of money have been contributed from the European social fund towards(a) Action for Community Employment, (b) the youth training programme and (c) the job training programme for each year since 1989; and what percentage contribution to the total costs of Action for Community Employment, the youth training programme and the job training programme this represents for each year.
§ Mr. NeedhamThe information requested is as follows:
enterprise allowance scheme, (e) job clubs and (f) restart courses; if he will publish the comparable information for each year since 1987; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. NeedhamThe information requested is as follows:
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ACE YTP JTP EAS Job clubs Restart courses 1987–88 6,200 11,619 1393 2,422 767 2,329 1988–89 8,600 13,328 2,562 1,695 1,576 673 1989–90 10,000 12,229 6,509 1,093 3,320 2nil 1990–91 10,273 13,825 7,426 815 3,674 nil 1 April to 31 October 1991 10,399 16,010 4,726 659 2,346 nil Notes:
ACE—Action for community employment.
YTP—Youth training programme.
JTP—Job training programme.
EAS—Enterprise allowance scheme.
1Pilot job training programme.
2 Restart courses ceased in March 1990.
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much expenditure, excluding administration costs, at cash and constant prices, has been spent in each year since 1983–84 on(a) Action for Community Employment, (b) the youth training programme, and the earlier youth opportunities programme, (e) the job training programme, and the earlier programmes it replaced, (d) the enterprise allowance scheme, (e) job
ACE1 YTP2 JTP3 Year £ million £ million (1990) £ million £ million (1990) £ million £ million (1990) cash price constant price cash price constant price cash price constant price 1983–84 10.6 15.9 35.2 53.1 — — 1984–85 13.6 19.4 36.6 52.5 — — 1985–86 17.8 24.2 40.9 55.6 — — 1986–87 28.5 37.9 48.8 64.8 0.013 0.017 1987–88 28.8 36.2 49.8 62.5 0.213 0.267 1988–89 41.1 48.2 54.1 63.5 1.4 1.6 1989–90 50.7 55.7 58.5 64.3 5.6 6.1
ACE1 YTP2 JTP3 Year £ million actual £ million planned £ million actual £ million planned £ million actual £ million planned 1990–91 51—2 — 56.8 — 8.3 — 1991–92 — 51.3 — 53.0 — 11.5 1992–93 — 50.4 — 51.2 — 16.8 1993–94 — 51.0 — 53.2 — 22.5
EAS4 Jobclubs5 Restart courses6 Year £ million cash price £ million (1990) constant price £ million cash price £ million (1990) constant price £ million cash price £ million (1990) constant price 1983–84 1.7 2.5 — — — — 1984–85 2.7 3.9 — — — — 1985–86 2.8 3.8 0.007 0.009 — — 1986–87 3.8 5.0 0.044 0.058 0.035 0.046 1987–88 4.7 5.9 0.121 0.152 0.143 0.180 1988–89 4.3 5.0 0.193 0.227 0.055 0.064 1989–90 2.5 2.7 0.284 0.312 — —
EAS4 Jobclubs5 Restart courses Year £ million actual £ million planned £ million actual £ million planned £ million actual £ million planned 1990–91 1.5 — 0.452 — — — 1991–92 — 1.5 — 0.387 — — 1992–93 — 1.5 — 0.481 — — 1993–94 — 1.5 — 0.484 — — Notes:
1ACE—Action for community employment.
684Wclubs and (f) restart courses; what is the planned expenditure in each of the years 1991–92 to 1993–94; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. NeedhamThe information requested is set out in the following tables. The constant prices have been calculated on the basis of the published Treasury GDP deflator.
2 YTP—Youth training programme.
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4 EAS—Enterprise allowance scheme.
5 Jobclubs commenced in 1985–86.
6 Restart courses commenced in 1986–87 and ended in 1988–89.
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the annual expenditure on the job training programme from the start of the programme to the estimated outturn for 1991–92; how much of each year's budget in cash terms was used to pay(a) the trainee's training allowances and (b) the trainee's training premium; and what was the average trainee allowance in each year.
§ Mr. NeedhamTraining premium is paid as part of the training allowance at a fixed rate of £10 per week. Records are maintained only in respect of gross training allowances (inclusive of the training premium) and are tabulated below together with information about annual expenditure and average training allowances.
Annual expenditure Total training allowances (inclusive of training premium at £10 per week) Average training allowances (inclusive of training premium at £10 per week) £ million £ million £ 1986–87 0.013 1— 1— 1987–88 0.213 1— 1— 1988–89 1.364 1— 1— 1989–90 5.564 2.911 40.23 1990–91 8.338 4.463 42.59 1991–92 211.492 26.307 246.00 1 Not available. 2 Estimate.