§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish details for Great Britain and for the west midlands region for each year from April 1986 to the most recent date, of the total number of YTS trainees(a) within each of the four provider types and their sub-categories and (b) with disabilities within each of the four provider types and their sub-categories.
§ Mr. LeightonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of the potential client group is receiving employment training.
§ Mr. NichollsThe information requested is not available.
§ Ms. RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people are undertaking employment training in each London area office; and how many are women requiring child care costs to be paid.
§ Mr. Nicholls[holding answer 14 May 1990]: The number of people on employment training in each London area office is given in the table. No information is available about the number of women claiming or receiving child care payments because information about the number of trainees receiving child care payments is not disaggregated by sex.
Employment training In training at 30 March 1990—London region Area office Numbers London North 4,935 London West 1,238 London East 2,870 London South 2,129 Inner London North 7,699 Inner London South 3,827
§ Ms. RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on his assessment of the effectiveness to date of his policy of encouraging women to take up employment training courses by paying child care costs.
§ Mr. Nicholls[holding answer 14 May 1990]: Assistance with the cost of child care is available to any lone parent in employment training (ET). Payments for help with child care are being made for some 3 per cent. of trainees. After only 18 months of ET I regard this as encouraging.