HC Deb 14 January 1994 vol 235 cc301-2W
Mr. Austin-Walker

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will provide an up-to-date table showing for Greater London and for England as a whole, and for each year from 1989, the number of places on youth training schemes and the number of people who have been waiting for over eight weeks for a place.

Miss Widdecombe

The number of young people on youth training or youth credits for each year since 1989 was as follows:

London England
1989 20,300 306,200
1990 19,900 279,200
1991 12,200 260,700
1992 19,900 233,200
1993 21,100 231,800

Source: Management information provided by training providers and training and enterprise councils).

Information on the number of young people covered by the youth training guarantee has been collected only since autumn 1992. On 9 December 1993, the most recent date for which information is available, the number of young registered with the careers service and waiting for a youth training place for eight or more weeks was 264 in London and 1,111 in England.

Mr. Austin-Walker

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will provide an up-to-date table showing for each training and enterprise council in Greater London, the figures for youth training cost per output point, employment training cost per output point, national vocational qualifications—NVQs—per 100 youth training leavers, positive outcomes per 100 employment training leavers, NVQs per 100 employment training leavers, youth training guarantee and investors in people.

Miss Widdecombe

Inter-TEC comparison tables for 1992–93 were published on 13 September 1993. A copy is available in the Library. We intend to publish full-year comparisons for 1993–94 this summer. We do not plan to publish in-year tables, because uneven flows of information during the year can distort comparisons of performance.