§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give an estimate of the percentage of gross domestic product spent on training in each of the years 1979 to 1987, inclusive; and if he will provide such comparative statistics as are available to him for each of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries over the same period.
§ Mr. NichollsThe information requested is not available.
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§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the total expenditure of the Manpower Services Commission and his Department in Scotland in each of the years 1979 to 1987, inclusive.
§ Mr. NichollsThe Manpower Services Commission (named the Training Commission from May 1988) keeps records on the basis of the standard financial year for accounting for Government expenditure. The year runs from 1 April to 31 March.
The proportion of the commission's costs that can be specifically indentified with services in Scotland is financed by a contribution to the commission's grant-in-aid from the Industry Department for Scotland.
The figures for this contribution are published in the annual Appropriation Accounts and are as follows:
£ 1979–80 53,244 1980–81 73,552 1981–82 92,211 1982–83 107,414 1983–84 118,541 1984–85 127,400 1985–86 133,896 1986–87 162,077
§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the total expenditure on the Manpower Services Commission's programme for the unemployed in each of the years 1979 to 1987, inclusive.
§ Mr. NichollsAll Training Commission (formerly Manpower Services Commission) programmes are concerned to some extent with the problems of unemployment, and expenditure on those specifically for the unemployed is not identified separately. Figures for the commission's total programme expenditure, and expenditure on programmes which it manages on behalf of the Department of Employment are shown by financial year in the table.