§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the quantifiable performance indicators he refers to in paragraph 5.21 of the "Training for Employment" White Paper.
§ Mr. NichollsA range of quantifiable and meaningful performance indicators for employment training is being developed by the training agency along the lines outlined in the White Paper. These will he published in due course.
§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give a local breakdown of(a) unfilled vacancies on the YTS and (b) those young people disqualified from benefit after termination of their bridging allowance.
Table 1 Employment training: Great Britain filled places Great Britain filled places as at: 30 September 28 October 25 November 16 December Great Britain 45,380 67,759 91,060 106,395
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Employment training: filled places by area office Filled places as at: Area office 30 September 1988 28 October 1988 25 November 1988 16 December 1988 South East Region Berkshire and Oxfordshire 223 372 483 563 Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire 623 853 1,001 1,110 Essex 455 642 772 1,006 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 1,005 1,315 1,523 1,730 Kent 760 1,068 1,365 1,521 Surrey 146 200 267 289 Sussex 587 714 842 928 London Region Inner London North 1,280 2,258 3,043 3,484 Inner London South 956 1,268 1,698 1,936 London East 832 1,098 1,421 1,593 London North 897 1,271 1,813 2,100 London South 389 431 614 613 London West 248 431 631 758 South West Region Avon 484 642 1,037 1,230 Devon and Cornwall 1,627 2,209 2,939 3,535 Dorset and Somerset 598 876 1,058 1,273 Gloucester and Wiltshire 278 539 708 797 West Midlands Region Birmingham and Solihull 1,228 2,086 2,998 3,555 Coventry and Warwickshire 551 838 1,134 1,280 Dudley and Sandwell 926 1,231 1,410 1,589 Staffordshire 769 1,296 1,748 2,051 The Marches, Hereford and Worcester 616 980 1,279 1,590 Wolverhampton and Walsall 863 1,263 1,672 1,874 East Midlands and Eastern Region
§ Mr. CopeThe number of unfilled YTS places on 30 November 1988, the latest available date, for each of the Training Agency regions is given in the table.
Number South East 16,100 London 10,200 South West 12,300 West Midlands 23,400 East Midlands 15,000 Yorkshire and Humberside 10,800 North West 15,700 Northern 7,500 Wales 4,200 Scotland 13,700 Great Britain 129,100 Since 16 and 17-year-olds on bridging allowance while waiting to take up a YTS place have no entitlement to income support, the question of disqualification following the termination of that allowance does not arise.
§ Mr. HendersonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many employment training scheme places have been filled in each month since the scheme's inception in each area for which employment statistics are collated; and what is the national total.
§ Mr. NichollsThe information requested is provided in the following tables.
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Filled places as at: Area office 30 September 1988 28 October 1988 25 November 1988 16 December 1988 Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire 309 489 835 1,035 Derbyshire 726 1,154 1,520 1,702 Leicestershire and Northamptonshire 707 1,015 1,352 1,530 Lincolnshire 428 540 673 802 Norfolk and Suffolk 755 1,188 1,404 1,786 Nottinghamshire 973 1,318 1,785 1,929 Yorkshire & Humberside Region Bradford, Calderdale & Kirklees 1,400 1,676 2,506 2,925 Humberside 2,016 2,662 3,267 3,542 North Yorkshire & Leeds 907 1,424 2,154 2,474 Sheffield & Rotherham 1,490 2,294 3,024 3,461 Wakefield, Doncaster & Barnsley 1,561 2,126 2,913 3,389 North West Region Cheshire 850 1,298 1,699 1,958 Cumbria 235 382 600 773 Lancashire 1,465 1,865 2,420 2,773 Central Manchester 1,346 1,809 2,372 2,500 Greater Manchester North 714 1,103 1,469 1,677 Greater Manchester East 848 1,224 1,589 1,747 Merseyside 1,210 2,197 3,264 3,889 Northern Region Cleveland 1,520 2,247 2,984 3,444 County Durham 898 1,629 2,259 2,538 Northumberland, North Tyneside & Newcastle 954 1,130 1,538 2,022 Sunderland, South Tyneside & Gateshead 1,053 2,063 2,886 3,538 Wales Dyfed & West Glamorgan 944 1,518 1,943 2,283 Gwent 198 621 868 1,051 Gwynned, Clwyd & Powys 436 993 1,251 1,582 Mid & South Glamorgan 735 1,305 1,934 2,351 Scotland Ayrshire, Dumfries & Galloway 451 700 1,060 1,408 Central & Fife 753 974 1,267 1,567 Glasgow City 836 1,201 1,621 2,052 Grampian & Tayside 739 1,078 1,256 1,409 Highlands & Islands 161 214 287 340 Lanarkshire 406 748 1,104 1,311 Lothian & Borders 490 992 1,558 2,005 Renfrew, Dunbarton & Argyll 525 701 942 1,197