Employment Subsidy Schemes

HC Deb 15 June 1995 vol 261 cc652-3W

Mr. Frank Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) if he will list the numbers leaving the temporary employment subsidy scheme as an actual number and as a percentage of total leavers, for each year of its operation, including those who left before completion of the scheme; if he will indicate those who went to work, those who went into further employment schemes and those who became unemployed; and, of these, if he will list the type and level of qualification each leaver obtained, including those who failed to obtain any qualification at all; [27506]

(2) if he will list the numbers leaving the temporary short-time working compensation scheme, as an actual number and as a percentage of total leavers, for each year of its operation, including those who left before completion of the scheme; if he will indicate those who went to work, those who went into further employment schemes and those who became unemployed; and, of these, if he will list the type and level of qualification each leaver obtained, including those who failed to obtain any qualification at all; [27508]

(3) if he will list the numbers attending and leaving the temporary short-time working compensation scheme, for each year of its operation, including those who left before completion of the scheme; [27518]

(4) how many people attended and left the temporary employment subsidy scheme in each year of its operation, including those who left before the completion of the scheme. [27458]

Mr. Paice

The temporary employment subsidy scheme and the temporary short-time working compensation scheme provided subsidies to firms with the objective of preventing redundancies. It was not paid in respect of individual workers, so it is difficult to identify people directly supported by the programme. Given the objective of the scheme, there was no evaluation carried out of particular individuals who were subsidised, and there is no information available on what happened when the subsidy ended. I will write to the hon. Member to give further information on the programme.