§ Mr. John Evansasked the Secretary of State for Employment what has been his Department's expenditure, in each region of the United Kingdom on the employment transfer scheme, for the last quarter for which figures are available; and what were the figures for each of the eight previous quarters.
§ Mr. Jim LesterI am informed by the Manpower Services Commission, which is responsible for the employment transfer scheme, that the information is not available. However, the table below gives the total expenditure on the employment transfer scheme during the period 1 April 1980 to 30 September 1980 for the whole of Great Britain.
Quarter ended Expenditure during the quarter 30 June 1978 £2,884,183 30 September 1978 £2,565,201 31 December 1978 £2,442,426 31 March 1979 £2,072,364 30 June 1979 £2,091,239 30 September 1979 £1,991,250 31 December 1979 £1,538,800 31 March 1380 £1,377,510 30 June 1980 £1,145,329 30 September 1980 £1,032,024 This decrease in expenditure is the result of a number of major changes made to the scheme in July 1978, January 1979 and July 1979 which were designed to make the scheme more cost effective and to reduce ETS spending as a contribution to the Governments expenditure cuts.