HC Deb 31 January 1990 vol 166 cc194-5W
Ms. Short

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the average weekly training allowance, including the training premium, for each ET trainee.

Mr. Nicholls

The average weekly training allowance including the training premium is estimated to be around £50 per trainee on employment training.

Ms. Short

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give for each region and for Great Britain as a whole the number of filled and contracted places in ET in the health and personal social services fields; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Nicholls

Information about the number of filled and contracted places in employment training is not available broken down into health and personal social services or other occupational categories.

Ms. Short

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how much has been paid by his Department in training bonuses to ET trainees since the start of the programme.

Mr. Nicholls

To the end of December 1989 the Training Agency had paid out £2.2 million in training bonuses.

Ms. Short

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how much has been paid out through the underpinning arrangements to ET managers and agents; and how much has been paid to those organisations to cover redundancy payments, since the start of ET.

Mr. Nicholls

From September 1988 up to and including December 1989, some £1.19 million has been paid to employment training training agents and £31 million to employment training training managers under underpinning arrangements. In the same period £2.7 million has been paid to former community programme managing agents in redundancy payments, for employees in community programme schemes who transferred to employment training and were subsequently made redundant.