HC Deb 26 June 1989 vol 155 c337W
Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what steps have been taken to ensure that confidential information on trainees, formerly with the Council for Social Aid, Manchester, will remain confidential following the transfer of this information to the liquidators.

Mr. Nicholls

Immediately after being notified that the company had ceased trading, the Training Agency took into safe custody the personal files of trainees, including their action plans.

Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment when the Training Agency last received audited accounts from the Council for Social Aid, Manchester.

Mr. Nicholls

Audited accounts from the Council for Social Aid were last received by the Training Agency in February 1989. These accounts related to the Council for Social Aid's community programme agency contract which ran from April 1987 to September 1988.

Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many places the Council for Social Aid, Manchester, originally contracted for, and how many employment training places were filled, by month from September 1988 until its demise in May 1989.

Mr. Nicholls

The Council for Social Aid originally contracted to provide 2,557 employment training places. The following table lists how many places were filled, by month, from September 1988.

Month (1988–89) Council for Social Aid Number filled places
September 1,818
October 1,695
November 1,792
December 1,632
January 1,410
February 1,223
March 1,024
April 1,045
May 1,011