HC Deb 10 January 1989 vol 144 cc543-5W
Mr. Meacher

To 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. Nicholls

A 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. Meacher

To 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

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. Cope

The 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. Henderson

To 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. Nicholls

The information requested is provided in the following tables.

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