HC Deb 05 April 1990 vol 170 cc815-6W
Ms. Short

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if unemployed young people over 18 years who(a) refuse to participate in a youth training scheme or (b) leave a youth training scheme early without good cause, will be subject to the benefit sanctions which apply to approved training schemes.

Mr. Eggar

The youth training scheme (YTS) is the only training scheme approved by the Secretary of State for Employment for the purposes of social security legislation. Under that legislation a young person over the age of 18 who is offered a place on the YTS and without good cause refuses or fails to apply for or accept that place, or voluntarily leaves YTS, can be subject to the unemployment benefit sanctions.

Mr. Ron Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the estimated expenditure on YTS for 1989–90, 1990–91 and 1991–92.

Mr. Nicholls

Planned expenditure on youth training, as set out in "The Government's Expenditure Plans 1990–91 to 1992–93", Cm 1006, is £1,010 million in 1989–90, £907 million in 1990–91 and £808 million in 1991–92.

Training and enterprise councils and local enterprise companies in Scotland whose bids to run training credit pilots are accepted will have additional funds available for their training credit pilots. These will involve a transfer of the appropriate proportion of relevant elements from the revenue support grant, and additional sums of £12 million in 1991–92 and £25 million in subsequent years will be made available.