§ Mr. Strangasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will publish figures showing for each of 615W Edinburgh's 62 district wards the number of people taken off the unemployment register as a result of the restart programme, the proportion of these people who have found full-time jobs, the number of people in each of the schemes operating under restart, and the number of people currently on Government training schemes.
§ Mr. LangThe information is not available in the precise form requested.
A total of approximately 1,400 people in Edinburgh have ceased to claim benefit since being identified under the restart programme. It is impossible, however, to determine how many of these left the unemployment register as a direct result of either the invitation to attend an interview or the counselling itself. Between 1 July 1986, the date on which restart commenced, and 12 February 1987, the numbers of people in Edinburgh who were placed in employment or in one of the Government's employment, enterprise or training schemes as a consequence of restart interviews were as shown in the table. In addition to these figures, a number of people were referred to other specialist services for example, Professional and Executive Recruitment, Disablement Resettlement Officer, Careers Service, and so on. No statistics are available to indicate how many of those placed on restart courses have subsequently obtained employment or other forms of training.
Number Commenced employment 25 Placed on Community Programme 6 Placed in Jobclub 74 Started own business under Enterprise Allowance Scheme 2 MSC training course 18 Employment Rehabilitation Centre 25 Restart courses 845