§ Dr. Godmanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish information for (a) Strathclyde region and (b) Greenock and Port Glasgow for each year since 1981 showing the number of disabled people receiving assistance with telephone installations, telephone attachments, telephone rental, television supply, television licence, radio supply, other personal aids, assistance with holidays; and how many places there were for the mentally ill at day centres and adult training centres.
§ Mr. John MacKayLocal authority statistical returns of persons in need who have been provided with assistance do not distinguish disabled persons from others. Returns for Strathclyde region identify recipients of assistance by districts defined for local management purposes.
The available information for persons assisted and places provided in Strathclyde region is as follows:
unemployment register as a result of the restart programme, the proportion of those people who have found full-time jobs, and the number of people currently on Government training schemes.
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§ Mr. LangThe information is not available in the precise form requested. A total of 524 people from the Greenock and Port Glasgow jobcentres 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 or the counselling itself. Between 1 July 1986, the date on which the restart programme commenced, and 12 February 1987, the numbers of people from the Greenock and Port Glasgow jobcentres 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 below.
Number Commenced employment 6 Placed on community programme 27 Placed in jobclub 81 Started own business under enterprise allowance scheme 12 MSC training course 6 Employment rehabilitation 9 Restart courses 265 In addition a number of people were referred to other specialist services— professional and executive recruitment, disablement resettlement officer, careers service, et cetera.
No statistics are available to indicate how many of those placed on restart courses have subsequently obtained employment or other forms of training.