§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the average amount spent per person on(a) employment training, (b) youth training, (c) the job interview guarantee scheme and (d) job clubs for each year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe average amount spent per person on employment training, youth training, the job interview guarantee scheme and job clubs in Great Britain, for each year for which figures are available is as follows:
Programme 1987–88 £ 1988–89 £ 1989–90 £ 1990–91 £ 1991–92 £ ET n/a 5,540 5,404 5,384 6,014 YT n/a n/a 2,715 2,687 2,801 JIG n/a n/a n/a n/a 57 Jobclub 1247 1190 140 1141 147 1 External providers (contracted by the Employment Service only). Figures include Jobclubs run by the Employment Service. Notes:
(1) Actual information later than 1990–91 is not available because average length of stay calculations are based on entrants to ET and EA in a given period and it is necessary to wait until all entrants in a period have left the programme.
(2) Employment Action began on I October 1991.
(3) The 1992–93 unit cost is for Employment Action in the programme's first six months of operation when the programme was building up.
210W(4) All figures are for Great Britain. These programmes are delivered in Scotland and Wales by Scottish Office and Welsh Office respectively.