§ Mr. Ashdownasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will name and describe the different types of regular report made from employment offices and jobcentres as part of his Department's management information system.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe public employment service requires a wide range of regular reports from its local managers designed to monitor performance against planned objectives and the pattern and scale of the business handled by jobcentres, and to guide decisions on the allocation of resources.
I shall write to the hon. Member shortly with a comprehensive list of the returns concerned and I shall place a copy of my letter in the Library.