HC Deb 17 February 1989 vol 147 cc428-31W
Ms. Short

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the recruitment statistics for each month of employment training, specifying by region and for Great Britain as a whole, the number of(a) employment training starters, (b) employment training leavers, (c) trainees on community programme wages and (d) the cumulative total of trainees who are on benefit plus training allowances.

Mr. Nicholls

The information requested for(a) (b) and (c) is given in the following tables. The number of employment training leavers is not available by region. The information for (d) is provided as the number in training each month and not as a cumulative total.

Region September October November December
ET Starts ET Leavers1 ET Starts ET Leavers1 ET Starts ET Leavers1 ET Starts ET Leavers1
East Midlands and Eastern 1,771 2,728 2,860 2,202
Yorks and Humber 2,974 4,523 5,509 4,402
North West 3,029 4,962 5,544 4,145
Northern 2,395 3,219 3,646 2,895
Wales 1,381 1,967 2,649 2,172
Scotland 2,331 3,120 4,045 3,894
Great Britain 21,462 1,000 31,083 5,000 35,202 7,000 28,867 7,000
1 The leavers figures are estimated and relate to trainees who were not transferred from previous programmes.

Table 2
Employment training; trainees on CP wages and ET allowances Monthly totals: September to December 1988
September October November December
Region CP wages ET allowances CP wages ET allowances CP wages ET allowances CP wages ET allowances
South east 4,353 3,799 3,367 5,164 2,614 6,253 1,924 7,049
London 6,691 4,602 5,402 6,325 4,174 9,220 3,295 10,510
South west 6,,414 2,987 5,031 4,266 3,670 5,742 2,859 6,847
West midlands 15,104 5,221 11,992 7,678 9,109 10,114 6,706 12,066
East midlands 9,628 3,898 7,646 5,704 5,971 7,569 4,639 8,943
Yorkshire and Humberside 13,260 9,764 12,355 10,182 9,454 14,464 7,062 15,999
North west 20,339 6,668 16,523 9,878 12,668 13,413 9,778 15,484
Northern 19,863 4,425 16,212 7,069 12,839 9,667 9,676 11,845
Wales 11,770 2,360 9,020 4,437 7,134 5,996 5,400 7,394
Scotland 13,996 4,361 12,763 6,608 10,439 9,095 8,621 11,660
Great Britain 121,418 48,085 100,311 67,311 78,072 91,533 59,960 107,797

Ms. Short

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give up-to-date statistics showing how many unemployed people have been referred to employment training agents since the start of the scheme; how many have had action plans completed; and how

Employment training: Referrals, action plans and training manager starts Monthly totals 1988
Referrals to training agents Agreed action plans Starts with training managers
Region September October November December September October November December September October November December
South East London 20,725 17,914 16,816 14,103 3,196 3,147 3,585 3,334 1,533 2,050 1,987 1,707
3,172 4,166 4,660 4,388 2,503 3,057 3,110 2,405
South West 5,131 4,380 3,873 3,475 1,706 2,257 2,389 1,796 1,075 1,724 2,023 1,742
West Midlands 10,347 8,652 9,111 8,159 4,345 4,363 4,950 4,563 2,470 3,733 3,829 3,303
East Midlands and Eastern 7,533 6,687 6,278 4,642 3,085 3,618 3,639 2,632 1,771 2,728 2,860 2,202
Yorkshire and Humberside 10,120 9,080 8,940 7,552 4,176 5,132 5,660 4,452 2,974 4,523 5,509 4,402
North West 12,732 11,402 11,132 9,150 4,119 5,830 6,417 5,151 3,029 4,962 5,544 4,145
Northern 12,453 7,690 6,434 5,661 4,389 4,351 4,467 3,597 2,395 3,219 3,646 2,895
Wales 5,225 5,383 5,697 5,092 1,948 2,500 3,076 2,433 1,381 1,967 2,649 2,172
Scotland 12,259 11,678 12,126 10,472 4,146 4,959 6,580 5,485 2,331 3,120 4,045 3,894
Great Britain 96,525 82,866 80,407 68,306 34,282 40,323 45,423 37,831 21,462 31,083 35,202 28,867
Notes:
1. The September figures include some referrals made in the two weeks prior to the official launch date.
2. The figures for referrals to training agents are provided by the employment service. However, the regional boundaries are not always co-terminus with those of the training agency.
3. Some of those people for whom an action plan was not agreed, may have been referred to alternative opportunities.

Mr. Henderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many employment training places are contracted for each employment office area; and of those places how many are from the new job training scheme and how many from the community programme.

Mr. Nicholls

The information is not available in the precise form requested. The following table gives the number of contracted employment training places by

many have started training and how many have not, giving the results for each month by region and for Great Britain as a whole.

Mr. Nicholls

The information requested is set out in the table.

Training Agency area. Information on how many of those places moved forward from the new job training scheme, the community programme or are new places, is not available.

Employment training—contracted places
Area office Contracted places
South East Region
Berkshire and Oxfordshire 1,833
Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire 2,553
Essex 3,595
Hampshire and Isle of Wight 3,221
Kent 3,791
Surrey 1,155
Sussex 3,020
London Region
Inner London North 7,316
Inner London South 4,745
London East 2,890
London North 4,141
London South 1,729
London West 1,467
South West Region
Avon 3,873
Devon and Cornwall 7,090
Dorset and Somerset 2,983
Gloucester and Wiltshire 2,927
West Midlands Region
Birmingham and Solihull 10,797
Coventry and Warwickshire 4,653
Dudley and Sandwell 4,936
Staffordshire 4,939
The Marches, Hereford/Worcester 4,195
Wolverhampton and Walsall 5,410
East Midlands and Eastern Region
Bedfordshire and Cambrideshire 2,055
Derbyshire 4,401
Leicestershire and Northamptonshire 4.408
Lincolnshire 2,032
Norfolk and Suffolk 4,125
Nottinghamshire 5,453
Yorkshire and Humberside Region
Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees 6,300
Humberside 5,787
North Yorkshire and Leeds 6,655
Sheffield and Rotherham 8,118
Wakefield, Doncaster and Barnsley 6,882
North West Region
Cheshire 5,048
Cumbria 2,170
Lancashire 7,179
Central Manchester 9,257
Greater Manchester North 6,480
Greater Manchester East 3,901
Merseyside 16,551
Northern Region
Cleveland 9,583
County Durham 7,120
Northumberland, North Tyneside and Newcastle 7,511
Sunderland, South Tyneside and Gateshead 9,856
Wales
Dyfed and West Glamorgan 6,329
Gwent 3,902
Gwynned, Clwyd and Powys 5,426
Mid and South Glamorgan 8,202
Scotland
Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway 4,664
Central and Fife 4,856
Glasgow City 9,854
Grampian and Tayside 4,397
Highlands and Islands 1,700
Lanarkshire 4,730
Lothian and Borders 5,258
Renfrew, Dumbarton and Argyll 6,014