§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the number of participants for the job interview guarantee; what the scheme cost; what the planned expenditure was; what number of those on the scheme achieved placings; and what was the breakdown of the placings in terms of the numbers going into(a) full-time employment and (b) part-time employment. [1765]
§ Mr. ForthResponsibility 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. E. G. Fogden to Mr. David Blunkett, dated 24 November 1995:
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question about Job Interview Guarantee (JIG).During the year 1994/95, the number of people assisted by JIG was 450,138. Actual expenditure was £22,367,851, compared with planned expenditure of £23,767,851.The number of those assisted who were placed into a job was 205,020. As JIG is particularly aimed at long term unemployed people, you might be interested to know that 165,535 of those placed had been out of work for six months or more. I am afraid no statistics are held which differentiate between full and part time employment.I hope this is helpful.