§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how much has been paid to(a) employment training agents and (b) employment training managers under the underpinning arrangements since the inception of the scheme to the latest available date; and if he will make a statement about his future policy on underpinning arrangements.
§ Mr. NichollsSo far some £0.67 million has been paid to training agents and £19.38 million to training managers under underpinning arrangements up to and including May 1989.
Underpinning was based on original profiles of training agent action plans/training manager starts, constructed prior to the commencement of employment training. From September 1989 training agents/training managers will be able to make a much more accurate judgment of likely throughput in the light of experience on the programme to date. It is therefore envisaged that underpinning payments will no longer be required.
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how much his Department has paid out to employment training trainees in the form of training bonus since the start of the scheme to the latest possible date; and how much of that has been paid because either(a) the trainee obtained a vocational qualification and (b) the trainee completed a part of the action plan.
§ Mr. NichollsTo the end of May 1989 the Training Agency had paid out £105,000 in training bonuses.
It is not possible to identify separately the proportion of funds paid in respect of (a) vocational qualifications obtained and (b) action plans completed.
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the average payment of benefit plus the additional £10 per trainee on employment training at the latest available date; how many employment training trainees are on placement with employers; how many employment training trainees had left the programme earlier than planned; how many employment training trainees had left to take up jobs; and how many employment training trainees had become unemployed when they left.
§ Mr. NichollsThe average weekly training allowance including the training premium is estimated to be around £50 per trainee on employment training.
The number of employment training trainees on placements with employers was estimated to be 45,000 on 16 June, the latest date for which information is available. Reliable information broken down as requested about trainees who have left the programme is not available.
§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total number of employment training places available for each training agency area; and what were the number of places filled for each training agency area on the latest date for which information is available.
§ Mr. NichollsThere is no information at present about the number of available places at Training Agency area276W office level. The information will be available later in the year. The information requested for filled places is given in the table:
277W
Employment training: filled places at 23 June 1989 Area office Number Yorkshire and Humberside Region Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees 4,541 Humberside 5,170 North Yorkshire and Leeds 4,393 Sheffield and Rotherham 5,464 Wakefield, Doncaster and Barnsley 5,436 North West Region Cheshire 3,040 Cumbria 1,399 Lancashire 4,203 Central Manchester 4,133 Greater Manchester North 2,710 Greater Manchester East 2,536 Merseyside 9,047 Northern Region Cleveland 6,283 County Durham 5,439 Northumberland, North Tyneside and Newcastle 4,650 Sunderland, South Tyneside and Gateshead 6,394 Wales Dyfed and West Glamorgan 4,376 Gwent 2,253 Gwynned, Clwyd and Powys 3,200 Mid and South Glamorgan 4,891 Scotland Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway 3,113 Central and Fife 2,862 Glasgow City 4,731 Grampian and Tayside 2,607 Highlands and Islands 1,010 Lanarkshire 2,567 Lothian and Borders 3,437 Renfrew, Dumbarton and Argyll 2,769 South East Region Berkshire and Oxfordshire 1,250 Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire 1,708 Essex 1,741 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 2,134 Kent 2,022 Surrey 475 Sussex 1,868 London Region Inner London North 5,920 Inner London South 3,356 London East 2,286 London North 3,680 London South 1,693 London West 1,219 South West Region Avon 2,646 Devon and Cornwall 5,642 Dorset and Somerset 1,868 Gloucester and Wiltshire 1,640 West Midlands Region Birmingham and Solihull 7,592 Coventry and Warwickshire 2,661 Dudley and Sandwell 2,939 Staffordshire 3,668 The Marches, Hereford/Worcester 2,690 Wolverhampton and Walsall 3,171 East Midlands and Eastern Region Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire 1,684 Derbyshire 2,938 Leicestershire and Northamptonshire 2,832
Area office Number Lincolnshire 1,375 Norfolk and Suffolk 3,223 Nottinghamshire 3,393
§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in theOfficial Report the level of expenditure so far spent on ET (a) in total, (b) advertising which mentions companies participating in ET through the large contractors unit and (c) (b) as a percentage of (a).
§ Mr. Cope[holding answer 22 June 1989]: Total expenditure on (a) employment training (ET) in the seven months to March 1989 was £423.6 million.
Expenditure on (b) poster, press and television advertising which mentions companies participating in ET was £3.1 million in the same period. (b) is 0.7 per cent. of (a).
Three of the six companies mentioned in the television advertising are involved in ET at area office level and not through the LCU.
§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the most recent details of(a) the number of filled places on the 23 large company ET schemes listed in the Official Report, 27 February, column 34, (b) any changes to the maximum number of places allocated for each of those schemes and (c) which of those schemes have since withdrawn from ET.
§ Mr. Nicholls[holding answer 4 July 1989]: The table updates to 26 May 1989 the details of the 23 large company ET schemes listed in the Official Report, 27 February, column 34.
The maximum number of places allocated column shows, in brackets, the changes to the figures listed in the Official Report.
None of the schemes listed has withdrawn from employment training.
Company Maximum Number of places Allocated Places filled at 26 May 1989 J. Jarvis and Sons 2,496 (-430) 924 J. Laing Construction 2,178 (-160) 1,032 Henry Boot Construction 569 (-381) 185 Invicta Training (Grand Metropolitan Catering) 715 (-160) 316 Martin James 640 (- 95) 482 Geo. Wimpey 547 (-119) 202 Mowlem 405 138 Comet PLC 374 42 Pilkington 270 (- 30) 226 Ferranti 215 (- 35) 115 Mill Garages Ltd. 170 (- 10) 118 Tower Radio Ltd. 250 108 Portals Engineering Ltd. 250 219 Marley Extrusions Ltd. 200 Ryder Ltd. 150 148 Team Greyfriars Ltd. 200 175 John Lawrence Group 150 32 ICI 100 (- 50) 74 Sumlock Business Services 90 (- 60) 24 R and D Associates 125 (- 33) 144 Simon Engineering 110 66 Coastline Ltd. 70 (- 30) 67 Strategic Marketing 100 66 International Ltd. 100 66
§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many employment training training278W managers there are (a) nationally and (b) by Training Agency area; and how many are receiving subsidies above the basic grant per trainee.
§ Mr. Nicholls[holding answer 26 June 1989]: There are currently 1,251 employment training (ET) training managers. The number of training managers in each Training Agency area is given in the table. Training managers do not receive subsidies but are paid grants to provide training.
279W
Numbers Scotland Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway 34 Central and Fife 34 Glasgow City 40 Grampian and Tayside 23 Highlands and Islands 14 Lanarkshire 28 Lothian and Borders 27 Renfrew, Dumbarton and Argyll 33 Northern Cleveland 38 County Durham 30 Newcastle 37 South Tyne 43 Yorkshire and Humberside Bradford, Kirklees and Calderdale 17 Humberside 34 Leeds and North Yorkshire 36 Sheffield and Rotherham 23 Wakefield, Barnsley and Doncaster 21 North West Cheshire 27 Cumbria 8 Greater Manchester Central 30 Greater Manchester East 11 Greater Manchester North 24 Lancashire 26 Merseyside 31 West Midlands Birmingham and Solihull 29 Coventry and Warwickshire 10 Dudley and Sandwell 18 Staffordshire 20 The Marches 12 Wolverhampton and Walsall 13 East Midlands and Eastern Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire 12 Derbyshire 21 Leicestershire and Northamptonshire 27 Lincolnshire 8 Norfolk and Suffolk 18 Nottinghamshire 20 Wales Cardiff 38 Gwent 21 Swansea 43 Wrexham 29 South West Avon 20 Devon and Cornwall 20 Gloucester and Wiltshire 14 Somerset and Dorset 15 South East Chatham 9 Chelmsford 15 Fareham 11 High Wycombe 12 Reading 11
Numbers Sussex 12 Woking 6 London Inner London North 27 Inner London South 25 London East 13 London North 12 London South 11 London West 10 Total 1,251