§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what organisations have been granted ET training agent contracts; what were the planned volumes of trainees between September 1988 and March 1989; what are the planned volumes between April 1989 and
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Table 1 Employment service referrals to training agents: September 1988 to March 1989 Employment service referrals to training agents Employment service area office September 1988 October 1988 November 1988 December 1988 January 1989 February 1989 March 1989 London and South East Region London North West 1,241 947 899 783 959 986 887 London East 615 820 921 789 897 826 908 Inner London Central 824 1,217 1,030 889 1,305 1,431 1,641 Essex 1,469 1,530 1,178 832 1,352 1,331 1,539 London North 931 1,111 972 808 1,085 1,085 986 Inner London East 669 923 1,013 841 1,033 1,024 1,160 Inner London West 1,299 1,080 1,243 983 1,350 1,513 1,441 London South East 591 725 534 329 503 629 573 London South 848 715 820 713 859 841 852 North and East Kent 1,604 1,187 1,104 905 1,247 1,146 1,169 London South West 813 631 568 394 519 582 656 Inner London West 1,049 817 727 672 1,022 1,123 827 London West 924 592 689 1,193 755 757 667 East Sussex and West Kent 940 974 876 698 875 784 832 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 1,925 1,686 1,583 1,184 1.842 1,566 1,579 West Sussex and Surrey 1,179 822 736 582 756 773 735 Hertfordshire 936 684 691 464 632 688 802 Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire 1,392 731 602 508 574 501 647 Berkshire and Oxfordshire 1,476 722 630 536 670 629 762 South West Region Avon 817 897 883 718 1,165 976 948 Devon 808 632 633 532 715 614 710 Cornwall/Plymouth 1,425 1,266 1,332 1,028 1,366 1,355 1,513 Gloucestershire/Wiltshire 957 727 611 482 735 932 1,014 Somerset/Dorset 1,124 858 414 715 970 970 983 West Midlands Region Birmingham and Solihulll 2,165 2,272 2,857 2,697 3,585 3,682 3,592 Coventry and Warwickshire 1,294 1,046 1,108 1,042 1,204 1,205 1,346 Hereford/Worcester 646 561 556 542 690 634 757 Wolverhampton/Walsall 1,622 1,465 1,264 1,121 1,392 1,346 1,551 Dudley and Sandwell 1,332 1,039 1,214 874 1,018 1,184 1,100 Shropshire 1,035 970 757 555 824 725 771 Staffordshire 2,253 1,299 1,355 1,328 1,799 1,604 1,621 East Midlands and Eastern Region Northamptonshire/Cambridgeshire 950 945 928 705 983 1,010 811 Derbyshire 1,752 1,306 1,258 705 1,304 1,208 1,277 Leicestershire 834 879 1,011 739 769 899 815 Lincolnshire 875 807 426 524 695 595 621 Suffolk 696 467 499 370 504 462 499 Nottingham 1,571 1,485 1,403 1,042 1,574 1,606 1,754 Norfolk 855 798 753 557 825 830 821 Yorkshire and Humberside region North Yorkshire 640 621 590 541 676 581 631 Wakefield 2,006 1,542 1,599 1,451 2,094 1,927 2,026 Bradford 1,365 1,163 1,216 999 1,226 1,247 1,301 North Humberside 1,183 1,266 1,196 907 1,282 1,063 1,305 South Humberside 1.689 1,777 1,563 1,355 1,982 1,704 2,013 Leeds 1,214 911 915 950 1,174 1,076 1,392 Sheffield 2,023 1,800 1,861 1,349 1,680 1,324 1,312 August 1989; how many trainees have been referred to ET training agents; and how many action plans had been agreed at the end of each month since September 1988, for each Training Agency area.
§ Mr. NichollsThe names and addresses of training agents are in the employment training directory of training agents and training managers, a copy of which is held in the House of Commons Library. Information on the profiles of training agent volumes is for internal management information purposes only. The numbers of employment service referrals to training agents are only available for the 77 employment service areas and are given in table 1. The number of action plans agreed at training agents are given for the 57 Training Agency areas in table 2.
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Employment service referrals to training agents Employment service area office September 1988 October 1988 November 1988 December 1988 January 1989 February 1989 March 1989 North West region Cheshire 1,664 1,177 1,079 844 1,080 1,009 1,063 Lancashire North 1,126 1,122 983 764 1,230 1,018 1,104 Lancashire South 1,042 875 815 776 1,122 1,154 1,145 Manchester West 709 628 526 475 733 762 1,067 Manchester South 1,007 824 832 648 831 829 985 Manchester City 1,242 1,040 936 858 1,197 1,142 1,485 Manchester North West 750 847 911 664 1,100 1,038 1,229 Manchester North West 1,068 873 928 765 1,030 929 1,092 Cumbria 836 554 496 418 755 566 609 Merseyside North 888 891 1,068 847 1,524 1,346 1,349 Merseyside South 1,297 1,365 1,386 1,160 1,551 1,791 2,201 Liverpool Central/Wirral 1,103 1,206 1,172 931 1,527 1,311 1,345 Northern region Northumberland 1,443 898 853 672 1,022 1,074 1,019 South Tyne and Wear 2,970 1,643 1,556 1,366 1,990 2,042 1,950 Cleveland 3,497 2,391 1,585 1,379 2,142 1,657 1,676 Newcastle and Gateshead 2,464 1,364 1,267 1,094 1,406 1,295 1,395 County Durham 2,079 1,394 1,173 1,150 1,689 1,721 1,722 Wales Gwent 597 720 848 758 1,114 1,182 1,154 Gwynedd 547 362 390 331 393 305 358 West Glamorgan/Dyfed 1,043 1,520 1,607 1,512 1,654 1,686 1,711 Mid Glamorgan 1,186 1,242 1,136 837 1,294 1,281 1,366 South Glamorgan 1,090 875 943 944 1,060 1,169 1,099 Clwyd/Powys 762 664 773 710 629 607 668 Scotland Glasgow North 1,300 1,614 1,763 1,578 2,055 2,512 2,862 Glasgow South 878 1,103 1,122 911 1,503 1,513 1,712 Lanarkshire 1,262 1,098 1,160 1,150 1,371 1,421 2,089 Highlands and Islands 960 639 714 640 703 670 633 Renfrew, Dumbarton and Argyll 1,500 1,628 1,542 1,432 1,734 2,101 2,254 Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway 1,128 1,294 1,320 1,141 1,388 1,300 1,287 Lothian and Borders 1,883 1,773 1,866 1,213 1,247 1,513 1,769 Tayside and Grampian 1,997 1,602 1,467 1,259 1,415 1,513 1,771 Central and Fife 1,351 927 1,172 1,148 1,651 1,432 1,449 288W289W
Table 2 Action plans completed by ET training agents: September 1988 to March 1989 Area office Agreed action plans September 1988 October 1988 November 1988 December 1988 January 1989 February 1989 March 1989 South East Region Berkshire and Oxfordshire 242 798 0 922 514 450 418 Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire 219 294 763 411 429 520 500 Essex 227 550 525 1,051 632 748 989 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 411 487 679 409 717 670 772 Kent 32 610 1,159 488 714 652 596 Surrey 102 223 174 615 190 0 196 Sussex 0 682 900 470 555 652 695 London Region Inner London North 505 1,196 1,545 1,606 1,651 1,799 2,090 Inner London South 510 655 616 539 645 718 736 London East 793 735 805 670 972 1,117 1,092 London North 732 857 935 846 858 970 996 London South 280 320 479 340 423 542 543 London West 591 867 811 676 900 912 952 South West Region Avon 238 361 411 327 453 506 489 Devon and Cornwall 665 692 1,244 795 1,294 615 1,192 Dorset and Somerset 418 478 386 332 342 516 471 Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 357 546 560 433 390 479 536 West Midlands Region Birmingham and Solihull 935 1,026 1,201 756 1,553 1,685 1,382 Coventry and Warwickshire 378 617 576 322 638 812 748 Dudley and Sandwell 818 769 899 1,021 978 1,059 1,416 Staffordshire 541 906 434 1,145 1,128 929 1,192
Area office Agreed action plans September 1988 October 1988 November 1988 December 1988 January 1989 February 1989 March 1989 The Marches, Hereford/Worcester 0 710 677 954 406 613 1,330 Wolverhampton and Walsall 0 1,055 1,913 308 706 821 754 East Midlands and Eastern Region Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire 502 484 520 331 400 426 362 Derbyshire 704 742 743 501 582 677 743 Leicestershire and Northamptonshire 499 607 604 551 718 719 736 Lincolnshire 192 251 267 154 296 359 313 Norfolk and Suffolk 586 625 652 426 753 641 961 Nottinghamshire 602 909 853 669 937 923 851 Yorkshire and Humberside Region Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees 758 944 1,439 911 1,123 1,186 1,316 Humberside 858 821 791 847 949 970 938 North Yorkshire and Leeds 621 826 752 743 777 1,035 1,002 Sheffield and Rotherham 1,078 1,387 1,382 961 1,459 1,236 1,043 Wakefield, Doncaster and Barnsley 861 1,154 1,296 990 1,501 1,547 1,265 North West Region Cheshire 809 826 901 588 773 951 699 Cumbria 267 280 406 269 315 377 373 Lancashire 937 1,050 955 943 1,090 1,164 1,279 Central Manchester 597 685 945 936 954 984 837 Greater Manchester North 395 699 711 423 821 834 894 Greater Manchester East 484 904 784 488 604 875 913 Merseyside 630 1,386 1,715 1,504 1,995 2,315 2,220 Northern Region Cleveland 1,404 2,633 3,774 4,573 6,197 7,961 9,464 County Durham 1,027 1,921 2,818 3,439 4,453 5,707 6,767 Northumberland, North Tyneside and Newcastle 602 1,564 2,668 3,517 5,861 7,136 13,114 Sunderland, South Tyneside and Gateshead 1,356 2,779 4,170 5,753 6,829 8,474 10.080 Wales Dyfed and West Glamorgan 524 759 922 749 909 930 949 Gwent 268 348 536 282 747 779 681 Gwynned, Clwyd and Powys 309 458 545 546 573 679 497 Mid Glamorgan and South Glamorgan 826 935 1,073 856 951 1,302 1,301 Scotland Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway 550 706 895 832 802 1,003 826 Central and Fife 429 459 710 603 594 832 573 Glasgow City 828 958 1,263 1,160 1,198 1,463 1,915 Grampian and Tayside 937 817 825 726 918 1,018 1,267 Highlands and Islands 158 207 301 351 397 400 308 Lanarkshire 301 649 710 480 639 800 803 Lothian and Borders 604 766 1,269 757 805 824 940 Renfrew, Dumbarton and Argyll 339 397 607 576 770 1,000 1,122 Note: Some months show no agreed action plans because of computer difficulties. Action plans agreed in these months are recorded in subsequent months.
§ Mr. LoydenTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will produce figures showing the duration of stay for participants on employment training on(a) a national and (b) a Merseyside basis.
§ Mr. NichollsInformation about duration of stay of employment training participants is not yet available.
§ Mr. LoydenTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if there have been any cases where an unemployed claimant has had his benefits or credits stopped for refusing the offer of a place on employment training or for leaving the scheme before completion.
§ Mr. LeeI am aware of only one case where an unemployed person had credits withheld because of a refusal to accept employment training. This decision was the result of an administrative error and I am satisfied that the case has now been rectified.
Because employment training is voluntary it is not training approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Social Security Act. The right to 290W unemployment benefit and credits is not, therefore, affected by a refusal of employment training or leaving an employment training course early.
§ Mr. ClellandTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what were the target numbers of employment training places in September 1988 for the south Tyne and north Tyne areas, for the first year of operation of the employment training scheme.
§ Mr. NichollsProfiles nationally and for area offices for the numbers of filled employment training places are for internal management purposes only.
§ Mr. Roy HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will consider providing gardening assistance for elderly and infirm people under employment training.
§ Mr. NichollsEmployment training is a training programme designed to meet the needs of individual trainees and to help them get jobs when they finish their 291W training. Gardening training is available where there is a local demand from employers for people with gardening skills and a demand from trainees for this sort of training. In these circumstances, employment training trainees very often provide considerable gardening assistance to elderly and infirm people.
§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the 50 largest companies participating in the employment training programme, in each case stating the number of places they contracted for, the number of places so far filled, the latter as a percentage of the former and the level of expenditure so far on employment training advertising by each of these companies.
Large companies with Training Managers contracts through ET large contractors unit Contracted places Places filled at 28 April 1989 Places filled as a percentage of contracted places Amarc 1,380 879 64 Comet 354 35 10 Dixons 229 6 3 Habitat 200 0 0 Heron Service Stations 81 1 1 J. Jarvis and Sons Ltd. 2,468 971 39 Kalamazoo 200 89 45 John Laing Construction 2,208 1,045 47 Lloyds British Training Services 2,595 1,950 75 Remploy 456 0 0 Mothercare 50 0 0 Mowlem 405 103 25 Wimpey 472 189 40 It should be noted that several of these companies have only recently signed employment training, training managing contracts and therefore their occupancy figures have not yet built up.