§ Mr. RooneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) how many unemployed people have been referred to restart courses by Employment Service counsellors since April in each region and in Great Britain as a whole; how many of them were unemployed for over two years; how many attended and completed the course; what were the outcomes of the participants; how many had their income support reduced for not attending or failing to complete their attendance at the restart course; if she will break down this information by(a) ethnicity, (b) disability and (c) gender; and if she will make a statement; [41912]
(2) how many unemployed people have been referred to jobplan workshops by Employment Service counsellors since April in each region and in Great Britain as a whole; how many of them were unemployed for over one year; how many attended and completed the workshop; what were the outcomes of the participants; how many had their income support reduced for not attending or failing to complete their attendance at the jobplan workshop; if she will break down this information by (a) ethnicity, (b) disability and (c) gender; and if she will make a statement; [41913]
849W(3) how many unemployed people have been referred to workwise and worklink by Employment Service counsellors since April in each region and in Great Britain as a whole; how many were referred direct from restart interviews and how many were referred from the 1–2–1 programme; how many attended and completed the courses; what were the outcomes of the participants; how many had their income support reduced for not attending or failing to complete their attendance at the workwise and worklink course; if she will break down this information by (a) ethnicity (b) disability and (c) gender; and if she will make a statement; [41914]
(4) how many people have joined (a) jobclubs, (b) jobsearch seminars and (c) job review workshops in each region and in Great Britain as a whole since April; how many have left each programme during this period; what were the outcomes of the participants; if she will break down this information by (i) ethnicity, (ii) disability and (iii) gender; and if she will make a statement. [41916]
§ Mr. ForthResponsibility for the subject of the questions 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. E. G. Fogden to Mr. Terry Rooney, dated 7 November 1995:
As the Employment Service is an Executive Agency, the Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your questions to him about Workwise/Worklink and 1–2–1, Jobclubs, job search seminars, Job Review Workshops, Restart Courses and Jobplan Workshops. This is something which falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Chief Executive of the Agency.The attached tables show for each region and nationally programme performance information and participant characteristics from April 1995 to September 1995 as follows:
Table 1: Workwise/worklink management information April-September 1995 Northern Y&H EM&E L&SE SW Wales WM NW Scotland National Number referred to programme 2,161 1,011 2,166 7,263 2,158 528 1,848 1,675 2,850 21,660 Starters on programme 1,094 505 886 2,894 1,119 254 836 724 1,149 9,461 Completers on programme 833 347 605 2,135 853 175 600 508 771 6,827 Outcomes—Jobcentre Job 38 8 17 56 38 18 29 13 29 246 —Non Jobcentre Job 71 29 57 204 113 18 93 36 49 670 —ES TEC/LEC programmes 261 93 152 648 225 69 200 159 296 2,103 —Other 86 30 28 231 71 12 60 22 35 575 —Total Outcomes 456 160 254 1,139 447 117 382 230 409 3,594 Number of Benefits Agency decisions made for clients failing to start or complete 418 170 402 1,173 368 73 279 367 724 3,974 The above data can not be broken down by characteristics for each data item but information is collected by participants as follows:
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Northern Y&H EM&E L&SE SW Wales WM NW Scotland National Starters Ethnic Group 1 (White) 1,055 431 776 2,039 1,050 244 651 668 1,121 8,035 —Ethnic Group 2 (Black/African) 3 9 37 474 22 4 42 17 2 610 —Ethnic Group 3 (Asian) 17 59 53 200 9 5 125 26 13 506 —Ethnic Group 4 (None of above) 4 3 6 83 6 0 9 4 2 117 —Ethnic Group 5 (Not any) 15 3 14 98 32 1 9 10 11 193 Starters Male 908 395 714 2,138 874 211 633 550 906 7,329 —Female 186 110 172 756 245 43 203 174 243 2,132 Starters Health Problem 94 47 94 249 115 14 65 54 62 794
- Table 1 — Workwise and Worklink
- Table 2 — Jobclubs
- Table 3 — Job search seminars
- Table 4 — Job Review Workshops
- Table 5 — Restart Courses
- Table 6 — Jobplan Workshops
Information is not routinely collected in respect of outcomes by individual characteristics of leavers. However information on characteristics is collected when participants join a programme, except for job search seminars, and this data has been included in the tables.
For job search seminars information about the numbers joining the programme is provided, but details about those not completing the programme are not routinely collected. In addition details about client characteristics and numbers entering non-job outcomes is not routinely collected.
Job Review Workshops are targeted mainly at unemployed professional and executive people and help individuals identify transferable skills so that they are able to consider a wider range of occupations. Information about outcomes which participants may enter during or following the two day workshop is not routinely collected.
Information about the number of attenders who have had their Income Support reduced for failing to attend or complete a programme is not routinely collected. The Benefits Agency (BA) provide the Employment Service with the number of decisions made on referrals to them for benefit sanctions. These decisions include both the numbers having their income support reduced and the numbers referred to them who do not have any sanction imposed. I have therefore provided information about the number of BA decisions made in respect of Workwise, Restart Courses and Jobplan Workshops.
The number of people helped by attending the programmes mentioned have been 318,737 so far this year. Over 116,000 people have taken up positive outcomes as a result of their attendance, including over 64,000 unemployed people who have entered jobs.
I hope this is helpful.
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Table 2: Jobclub Management Information April-September 1995 Northern Y&H EM&E L&SE SW WALES WM NW Scotland National Number Entrants 7,170 10,625 10,593 39,749 10,040 5,753 12,252 14,238 12,105 122,525 Number Leavers 7,845 10,504 12,410 46,542 10,576 6,255 12,160 15,530 11,900 133,722 Outcomes Jobcentre Job 890 874 852 2,614 898 844 866 874 1,959 10,671 Non Jobcentre Job 2,264 3,544 3,511 14,393 3,843 2,157 3,993 4,761 3,858 42,324 Other Positive Outcomes 632 1,045 1,179 4,090 1,271 740 1,347 1,196 1,435 12,935 Total Outcomes 3,786 5,463 5,542 21,097 6,012 3,741 6,206 6,831 7,252 65,930
Northern Y&H EM&E L&SE SW Wales WM NW Scotland National Leavers—Ethnic Group 1 (White) 7,695 9,607 11,506 34,158 10,225 6,066 9,954 14,065 11,696 11,5512 —Ethnic Group 2 (Black African) 27 195 220 5,718 128 48 565 259 19 7,179 —Ethnic Group 3 (Asian) 47 559 493 3,764 75 61 1,452 434 80 6,965 —Ethnic Group 4 (None of above) 36 63 62 1,500 47 26 75 104 37 1,950 —Ethnic Group 5 (Not say) 40 80 129 1,402 101 54 114 128 68 2,116 Leavers—Male 6,552 8,355 9,937 34,894 8,259 4,967 9,287 12,443 9,604 104,298 —Female 1,293 2,149 2,473 11,648 2,317 1,288 2,873 3,087 2,296 29,424 Leavers—Health Problem 609 908 1,731 4,285 1,384 793 986 994 1,141 12,831
Table 3: Job Search Seminar Management Information April—September 1995 Northern Y&H EM&E L&SE SW Wales WM NW Scotland National Total Attenders 2,332 3,909 2,255 10,051 2,685 823 2,653 2,612 2,462 29,782 Outcomes—Jobcentre Job 49 88 29 140 42 25 34 44 94 545 —Non Jobcentre Job 193 546 216 1,428 385 111 236 263 223 3601 —Total Placings 242 634 245 1,568 427 136 270 307 317 4146 The above data can not be broken down by characteristics.
Table 4: Job review workshops management information April-September 1996 Northern Y&H EM&E L&SE SW Wales WM NW Scotland National Total Starters 751 1,718 1,219 5,422 1,899 499 1,268 1,305 1,437 15,508 Total Completers 694 1,589 1,144 5,032 1,763 471 1,133 1,206 1,322 14,354 Starters—Ethnic Group 1 (White) 725 1,626 1,137 4,511 1,848 486 1,124 1,235 1,388 14,080 —Ethnic Group 2 (Black/African) 9 13 14 331 13 1 36 10 0 427 —Ethnic Group 3 (Asian) 8 51 37 307 10 8 77 34 12 544 —Ethnic Group 4 (none of above) 4 10 8 103 8 2 7 7 4 153 —Ethnic Group 5 (Not say) 5 18 23 170 20 2 14 19 33 304 Starters—Male 573 1,289 944 4,068 1,482 388 934 1,019 1,067 11,764 —Female 178 429 275 1,354 417 111 324 286 370 3,744 Starters-Health Problem 91 229 192 583 272 47 141 168 116 1,839 The above date can not be broken down by characteristics for each data Item but information is collected by participants as above:
Table 5: Restart courses management information April—September 1995 Northern Y&H EM&E L&SE SW Wales WM NW Scotland National Number referred to programme 5,217 9,459 10,087 36,147 6,054 4,420 8,746 11,644 9,628 101,402 Starters on programme 3,297 5,482 5,435 18,733 3,179 2,421 4,977 6,269 5,011 55,344 Completers on programme 2,938 4,441 4,651 16,021 3,220 2,072 4,238 5,217 4,239 47,037 Outcomes—Jobcentre Job 19 44 44 150 42 44 65 40 95 543 —Non Jobcentre Job 51 163 150 587 169 72 143 158 139 1,632 —ES TEC/LEC programmes 458 691 778 3,991 622 400 1,239 1,203 1,359 10,741 —Other 114 285 195 941 169 60 226 163 67 2,220 —Total outcomes 642 1,183 1,167 5,669 1,002 576 1,673 1,564 1,660 15,136 Number of Benefits Agency decisions made for clients failing to start or complete 657 1,167 1,248 3,614 741 636 776 2,062 1,839 12,740 The above date can not be broken down by characteristics for each data Item but information is collected by participants as above:
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Northern Y&H EM&E L&SE SW Wales WM NW Scotland National Starters—Ethnic group 1 (white) 3,199 4,841 4,805 14,268 3,464 2,306 4,004 5,704 4,825 47,416 Ethnic group 2 (black/african) 14 127 206 1,950 45 20 280 142 6 2,790 Ethnic group 3 (asian) 30 350 207 1,290 23 19 567 236 29 2,751 Ethnic group 4 (none of the above) 14 49 44 411 34 12 36 50 29 679 Ethnic group 5 (not say) 40 115 173 814 153 64 90 137 122 1,708 Starters—male 2,884 4,769 4,679 15,815 3,147 2,129 4,272 5,426 4,346 47,467 —Female 413 713 756 2,918 572 292 705 843 665 7,877 Starters—health problem 396 884 884 2,433 680 333 762 721 586 7,679 Starters—U/E for 24 months+ 2,870 4,178 4,565 14,452 3,119 1,758 4,077 5,153 4,315 44,487
Table 6: Jobplan management information April-September 1995 Northern Y&H EM&E L&SE SW Wales WM NW Scotland National Number referred to programme 9,161 14,877 14,833 59,290 14,790 7,551 15,717 21,629 19,438 177,286 Starters on programme 5,445 7,371 7,208 27,437 7,994 3,683 7,909 9,876 9,194 86,117 Completers on programme 5,149 6,803 6,648 25,528 7,416 3,395 7,314 9,124 8,442 79,819 Outcomes—jobcentre job 47 48 86 242 102 40 123 90 222 1,000 —Non jobcentre job 145 341 226 805 269 124 315 290 263 2,778 —ES TEC/LEC programmes 1,142 1,463 1,177 6,668 1,581 864 2,247 1,805 2,837 19,784 —Other 312 514 285 1,184 253 105 514 294 197 3,658 —Total outcomes 1,646 2,366 1,774 8,899 2,205 1,133 3,199 2,479 3,519 27,220 Number of Benefits Agency decisions made for clients failing to start or complete 1,192 1,848 1,979 5,939 1,993 983 1,494 3,591 3,562 22,581 The above data can not be broken down by characteristics for each data item but information is collected by participants as follows:
Northern Y&H EM&E L&SE SW Wales WM NW Scotland National Starters—Ethnic group 1 (white) 5,230 6,578 6,424 20,522 7,411 3,454 6,485 8,982 8,813 73,899 —Ethnic group 2 (black/african) 25 150 188 2,991 166 40 412 224 27 4,223 —Ethnic group 3 (asian) 70 415 336 2,202 76 40 786 366 114 4,405 —Ethnic group 4 (none of the above) 33 54 58 602 55 37 65 76 37 1,017 —Ethnic group 5 (not say) 87 174 202 1,120 286 112 161 228 203 2,573 Starters—male 4,718 6,236 5,969 22,071 6,492 3,088 6,509 8,293 7,798 71,174 —Female 727 1,135 1,239 5,366 1,502 595 1,400 1,583 1,396 14,943 Starters—health problem 708 1,156 1,261 3,506 1,340 512 1,308 1,101 1,047 11,939 Starters—U/E for 24 months+ 5,392 7,146 7,130 25,976 7,353 3,167 7,655 9,731 9,009 82,559
§ Mr. RooneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) if she will set out, according to the results from the youth training leavers survey, the number and level of NVQs or credits towards NVQs or other qualifications gained by people leaving YT in the period April 1994 to December 1994, for each region and for England and Wales as a whole, for all leavers and by ethnic group, disability and gender showing male, female and all; and if she will make a statement; [41922]
(2) if she will set out, according to the results from the training for work leavers survey, the number and level of NVQs or credits towards NVQs or other qualifications gained by people leaving training for work in the period April 1994 to December 1994, for each region and for England and Wales as a whole, for all leavers and by ethnic group, disability and gender showing male, female and all; and if she will make a statement; [41924]
(3) what are the results of the youth training leavers survey for the period April 1994 to December 1994, for each TEC area in England and Wales and for each region 854W and for England and Wales as a whole, broken down to show the number and proportion of leavers who were (a) in full-time work with the same employer, (b) in full-time work with a different employer, (c) in part-time work, (d) on a full-time course at a college or training centre, (e) on another YT scheme, (f) doing something else, (g) unemployed and (h) had obtained a vocational qualification; what was (i) the number of questionnaires issued, (ii) the usable percentage response rate and (iii) the percentage of respondents who were early leavers and the reasons stated for leaving training early; and if she will make a statement. [41996]
§ Mr. PaiceAs the information requested is contained in a large number of tables, I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my reply in the Library.