§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what is the role, purpose and cost of job search seminars and which unemployed people are eligible for their assistance for Great Britain and for each region; how many job search seminars have been established; how many people have been helped by those seminars; how many people have been directly placed into jobs; how many have been directly placed in other outcomes; and if she will make a statement;
218W(2) what is the role, purpose and cost of job referral teams and which unemployed people are eligible for their assistance and for Great Britain and for each region (a) how many job referral teams have been established, (b) how many people have been helped by those teams, (c) how many people have been directly placed into jobs and (d) how many have been directly placed in other outcomes; and if she will make a statement;
(3) what is the role, purpose and cost of job review workshops and which unemployed people are eligible for their assistance and for Great Britain and for each region (a) how many job review workshops have been established, (b) how many people have been helped by those workshops, (c) how many people have been directly placed into jobs and (d) how many have been directly placed in other outcomes; and if she will make a statement;
(4) for Great Britain and for each region how many people have been called in to attend 13-week Employment Service counselling interviews; how many people have actually attended such interviews; and of those who attended (a) how many have been placed directly into jobs, (b) how many people have been placed in what other outcomes and (c) how many have had their benefit stopped or suspended and for what reasons; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. McLoughlinQuestions on operational matters in the Employment Service executive agency are the responsibility of the agency's chief executive, to whom I have referred these questions for reply.