HC Deb 23 July 1987 vol 120 cc330-2W
Mr. Hannam

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will consider increasing the resources available to the sheltered placements scheme; and if he will indicate how many additional places will be made available before 31 March 1988.

Mr. Lee

The sheltered placement scheme is set to increase by around 1,200 places in 1987–88—an expansion of over 40 per cent. in a single year. I have no plans to increase the resource available for the scheme during the remainder of this financial year.

Mr. Corbett

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many (a) males and (b) females have acquired qualifications, listed by category, under the YTS, by region, since its inception.

Mr. Cope

The table shows the percentage of leavers by region gaining qualifications in the most recent full year, April 1985 to March 1986. Information is not available for previous years and not yet available for 1986–87.

Mr. Michael Brown

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he now has final figures for the number of entrants to YTS in 1985–86; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Cope

The Manpower Services Commission has released figures today which show that there were 406,332 starts to YTS in 1985–86.

Cumulative figures at the end of each month were as follows:

Number
1985
April 14,729
May 27,265
June 89,424
July 171,648
August 228,072
September 324,677
October 348,609
November 363,611
December 371,024
1986
January 387,213
February 396,372
March 406,332
Total for year 406,332

The figures represent the actual number of scheme "starts" including second and subsequent starts where trainees have transferred between schemes. We estimate that the number of individuals entering YTS is some 10 per cent. lower than the figures for starts in the table.

Number1 of male and female staff employed 1979 to 19872
1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987
Grade 1
Male 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Female — — — — — — — — —
Grade 2
Male 9.0 9.0 9.0 6.0 6.0 7.0 6.0 8.0 8.0
Female — — — — — — — — —
Grade 3
Male 25.5 23.0 25.0 24.0 21.0 26.0 52.0 57.0 61.0
Female 1.0 3.0 1.0 1.0 — 1.0 1.0 2.0 —
Grade 4
Male 19.0 21.0 19.5 20.0 19.0 17.0 66.0 57.0 57.0
Female 1.0 1.0 — — — — — 1.0 1.0
Grade 5
Male 238.5 234.5 237.0 234.0 232.5 140.5 132.5 136.5 140.0
Female 21.5 20.5 22.5 18.0 21.0 12.5 11.5 12.5 17.5
Grade 6
Male 194.0 187.0 178.0 181.0 174.0 288.0 221.0 216.5 219.5
Female 6.0 10.0 6.0 7.5 6.5 18.5 21.5 25.5 27.0
Grade 7
Male 824.0 849.5 830.0 796.0 824.0 788.0 785.0 823.5 897.0
Female 65.0 64.5 64.5 73.5 75.0 70.5 62.5 68.5 87.0
SEO
Male 1,739.0 1,797.0 1,705.0 1,706.0 1,647.0 1,614.0 1,512.0 1,543.0 1,553.5
Female 171.5 171.0 149.5 159.5 169.5 177.0 172.0 213.0 238.5
HEO
Male 3,267.5 3,364.5 3,305.0 3,291.0 3,367.5 3,426.0 3,350.0 3,317.5 3,387.5
Female 570.0 592.0 595.5 661.0 765.0 863.5 984.0 1,110.0 1,355.5

These figures differ from those published during 1985–86 because they include notifications of starts which had not been received by the time that the monthly statistics were announced.

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