Employment Programmes (Hansard, 19 May 1992)

§ Ms. Short

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) how many and what proportion of employment training leavers for each region and for Great Britain as a whole(a) had been entered for a vocational qualification, (b) had obtained a vocational qualification, (c) had failed to obtain a vocational qualification and (d) were awaiting their results; and how many of the enterprise training leavers in the relevant period had completed the training agreed in their initial action plan;

(2) if she will publish tables showing the latest available results from the employment training leavers' survey for each training and enterprise council area in England and Wales and each local enterprise company area in Scotland broken down to show the number and proportion of employment training leavers who had (a) been entered for a vocational qualification, (b) obtained a vocational qualification, (c) had failed to obtain a vocational qualification and (d) were awaiting their results; and how many of the employment training leavers in the relevant period had completed the training agreed in their initial action plan;

(3) how many people were participating in (i) employment training, (ii) the enterprise allowance scheme and (iii) youth training in each month since November 1991; and if she will make a statement;

(4) for each region, and for Great Britain as a whole, whether she will give the latest results of the youth training scheme—youth training leavers survey, to show for male and female trainees and for each separate ethnic group and for those with a disability (a) those in full-time work with the same employer, (b) those in full-time work with a different employer, (c) those in part-time work, (d) those on a full-time course at a college-training centre, (e) those on another youth training scheme, (f) those doing something else, (g) those who were unemployed, (h) those who had obtained a vocational qualification, (i) the number of questionnaires issued, (j) the usable percentage response rate and (k) the percentage of respondents who were early leavers;

(5) if she will publish tables showing the latest available results from the employment training leavers' survey for each TEC area in England and Wales and each LEC area in Scotland broken down to show the number and 135W proportion of employment training leavers who were (a) in a full-time job with their work experience employer, (b) in a full-time job with another employer, (c) employed in their own business, (d) in a part-time job, (e) in voluntary work, (f) on another Government training programme, (g) on a full-time education or training course, (h) unemployed and claiming benefit, (i) unemployed and not claiming benefit, (j) in a job club and (k) doing something else;

(6) if she will state for each region and for Great Britain as a whole, separately for males and females, how many people have entered employment action and how many were participating in employment action in each month since January 1992;

(7) how many and what proportion of employment training trainees for each region and for Great Britain as a whole, for the latest available period, were, three months after leaving (a) in a full-time job with their work experience employer, (b) in a full-time job with another employer, (c) employed in their own business, (d) in a part-time job, (e) in voluntary work, (f) on another government training programme, (g) on a full time education or training course, (h) unemployed and claiming benefit, (i) unemployed and not claiming benefit, (j) in a job club and (k) doing something else;

(8) if she will state for each region and for Great Britain as a whole, separately for males and females what percentage of persons aged (a) 16 years and (b) 17 years have been on youth training schemes in each year since YTS-YT started.