§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment, what safeguards he is taking to ensure the confidentiality of the personal information given to employment training training agents and managers; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. NichollsPersonal information held on computer systems of training agents and training managers is already protected by the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1984.
Training Agency officials are considering whether any further safeguards for the protection of personal information are necessary.
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what personal information employment service staff and claimant advisers may obtain on an employment training trainee from the trainee's training manager or training agent; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Patrick NichollsNo information about the personal characteristics or personal circumstances of a trainee should be passed to the employment service by a training agent or training manager.
§ Mr. HendersonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people who are direct entrants on employment training and not transferred in have left employment training since it began; and how many have left employment training after being transferred in from a constituent part.
§ Mr. NichollsTo the end of December 1988, the latest date for which information is available, 39,500 people had left employment training. It is estimated that of these about 20,000 had been direct recruits. The remainder had chosen to transfer from other programmes.