§ Mr. Galleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish details of the take-up of the enterprise allowance, region by region and district by district, in Yorkshire and Humberside.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkAt 21 October the number of people accepted onto the enterprise allowance scheme since the scheme was extended nationally on 1 August 1983 was as follows:
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Region take up Numbers London 1,007 Southern 1,948 South West 1,012 Midlands 2,228 North West 2,267 Yorkshire and Humberside 1,089 Northern 1,635 Scotland 966 Wales 806 TOTAL 11,958
Take up in each of the Manpower Services Commission's employment division areas in Yorkshire and Humberside Region Numbers Bradford 292 Leeds 150 Humberside 184 North Yorkshire 114 Sheffield 197 Wakefield 152 TOTAL 1,089
§ Ms Harmanasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many applications there were to industrial tribunals for unfair dismissal due to trade union membership or trade union activities for the years 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982; how many such cases were actually heard in each year; and in how many of such cases the claimant was successful.
§ Mr. GummerBecause of past problems over the accuracy of data input, reliable information on the number of complaints of unfair dismissal on grounds of trade union membership and activities is not available. The following figures should therefore be treated with considerable caution:
Unfair dismissal complaints on grounds of trade union membership or activities Complaints made Agreed settlements Tribunal hearings Complaints upheld 1979 545 50 263 33 1980 621 140 255 34 1981 271 48 82 18 1982* 820 53 126 21 * Provisional. A number of steps have now been taken to remedy the deficiencies in the collection of this data and more reliable figures should be available in due course for 1983.