§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will list the number of(a) deaths and (b) serious accidents at construction sites in Wales in each of the last five years.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe numbers of deaths and major injuries occurring in the construction industry in Wales over the past five years are provided in the table:
§ Mr. McLoughlinResponsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service Agency under its chief executive. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from M. Fogden to Mr. Ron Davies, dated 9 February 1993:
As the Employment Service is an Executive Agency, the Secretary of State has asked me to write to you direct to respond to your Parliamentary Question to her about the 591W percentage of those referred by the Employment Service to Employment Training, in the Valleys Initiative area, who actually started between April 1991 and March 1992. This is something which falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Chief Executive of the Agency.Although we do not collect information in the format you asked for we have found a way to provide a close alternative, which is based on returns from our local offices located in the Valleys Initiative area. This gives a figure of 39% which is almost exactly equivalent to 1 person starting for every 2.5 who are referred.I hope this is helpful.As decided by the Administration Committee of the House of Commons, Chief Executive replies to written Parliamentary Questions will now be published in the Official Report. I will also place a copy of this letter in the Library of the House.
§ Mrs. Helen JacksonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the current numbers of employment trainees by ethnic origin.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe following table gives the latest percentage breakdown of entrants to employment training in Great Britain by ethnic origin.
Table 1 Employment training: characteristics of entrants
April 1992 to September 19921
Per cent. Region Ethnic origins2 Sex 1 2 3 4 5 Male Female Sheffield TEC 86 6 2 4 1 70 30 Yorkshire and Humberside 91 2 4 1 1 68 32 England and Wales 88 5 4 2 1 67 33 Source: Employment Training Starts Database.
Table 2 Youth training: characteristics of leavers
April 1992 to October 19921
Per cent. Region Ethnic origins2 Sex 1 2 3 4 5 Male Female Sheffield TEC 93 3 3 1 1 61 39 Yorkshire and Humberside 94 1 4 1 4— 60 40 England and Wales 94 2 3 1 1 57 43 Source: Youth Training Leavers Database.
Table 3 Job club: characteristics of leavers April 1991 to March 19921
Per cent. Region Ethnic origins2 Sex 1 2 3 4 5 Male Female Sheffield area3 94 1 2 2 1 85 15 Yorkshire and Humberside 91 1 7 1 4— 82 18 England and Wales 86 6 7 1 1 80 20 Source: Employment Service Management Information System.
Notes to tables:
1 The latest period for which information is available.
Notes of tables:
1 The latest period for which information is available.
2 1=White;
2=Black/African/Caribbean;
3=Indian/Pakistan/Bangladeshi/Sri Lankan;
4=None of these;
5=Prefer not to say.
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Employment training April 1992 to September 1992—Great Britain
Starts by ethnic origin
per cent. White 89 Black/African/Caribbean 4 Asian 4 Other 2 Not stated (including prefer not to say) 1 SourceET starts database.
§ Mrs. Helen JacksonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest statistics for 1992 on numbers of(a) employment trainees, (b) youth trainees and (c) job club leavers, by ethnic origin and sex for (i) England and Wales, (ii) Yorkshire and Humberside and (iii) Sheffield.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe information requested is not available in the exact format asked for. Information is only available about the percentage of entrants or leavers by characteristics. The following tables give the latest data.
593W3 Sheffield area does not cover exactly the same area as Sheffield TEC.
4 Less than 0.5 per cent.
Percentages may not add up to 100 due to independent rounding.