§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the number and percentage of firms which are, for the Manchester, Sheffield, London, Newcastle, Birmingham, Stoke on Trent, Leeds and Wakefield travel-to-work areas and nationally (a) included in the quota scheme, (b) meeting the quota scheme, (c) failing to employ the required quota and holding a permit, (d) failing to employ the required quota but not holding a permit and (e) issued with bulk permits not to employ disabled people.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe information requested is in the table and relates to 1 June 1984.
- people;
- training at residential training colleges where appropriate;
- individual training with an employer, where the employer is prepared afterwards to keep the trainee on the payroll;
- extended training lasting more than a year to meet special needs;
- vocational guidance and help in finding suitable employment, through the jobcentre service, through disablement resettlement officers, and through professional and executive recruitment;
- training under the youth training scheme under preferential entry conditions;
- temporary employment within the community programme, under relaxed entry conditions;
- the provision of special aids to employment on indefinite loan to severely disabled people;
- grants to employers towards the cost of adapting premises or equipment;
- assistance with fares to work for those disabled people who are unable to use public transport;
- grants to employers to induce them to take on disabled people
193 where the individual's suitability is in doubt; - help towards the cost of employing a personal reader to assist a blind or partially sighted worker;
- financial help for disabled people to set up their own business if they are unable to work either in open or sheltered employment;
- reminders to employers about and administration of the statutory duty to employ the 3 per cent. quota of registered disabled people, and to reserve entry into designated occupations for registered disabled people;
- the provision of employment for severely disabled people in sheltered workshops;
- promotion and provision for sheltered industrial groups also for severely disabled people;
- promotion of the code of good practice on the employment of disabled people through the disablement advisory service;
- promotion of disabled people's abilities through the fit for work campaign.
§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the estimated and actual expenditure on special resettlement scheme grants for the employment of disabled people in the years 1982, 1983, 1984 on the job introduction scheme, adaptations to premises and equipment, assistance with fares to work, special aid to employment and business on own account; how many disabled people were helped on projects involved in each case; and what is the estimated expenditure on each of these schemes for 1985.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe information, which is collected on a financial year basis, is as follows:
Job Introduction Schemes Estimated Expenditure £
Actual Expenditure £
Beneficiaries 1981–82 425,000 354,588 1,434 1982–83 531,500 439,861 1,295 1983–84 571,000 567,980 1,850 1984–85 635,000 — —
Adaptations to Premises and Equipment Estimated Expenditure £
Actual Expenditure £
Beneficiaries 1981–82 150 000 71 469 93 1982–83 177,100 107,334 117 1983–84 208,000 134,412 170 1984–85 150,500 — —
Assistance with Fares to work Estimated Expenditure £
Actual Expenditure £
Beneficiaries 1981–82 250,000 230,607 272 1982–83 295,400 273,019 296 1983–84 299,000 327,776 364 1984–85 330,000 — — 194W
Special Aids to Employment Estimated Expenditure £ Actual Expenditure £ Beneficiaries 1981–82 310,000 312,461 765 1982–83 751,800 529,379 1,067 1983–84 585,000 792,168 1,268 1984–85 800,000 — —
Business on Own Account Estimated Expenditure £ Actual Expenditure £ Beneficiaries 1981–82 17,500 19,762 13 1982–83 23,400 24,085 7 1983–84 53,000 34,568 13 1984–85 60,000 — —