§ Mr. BlairTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate for each of the periods 1 April 1989 to 31 March 1990 and 1 April 1990 to 31 March 1991 of the average amount per place of employer contribution for ET and for YTS.
§ Mr. NichollsThe Government do not publish estimates of the average employer contribution per place.
The level of contribution will justifiably vary between employers, trainees and types of provider and contributions are made in a variety of ways, for example sponsorship, support in kind and payments for work experience provision.
§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give, based on the information given in the public expenditure White Paper (Cm. 1006), the estimated total percentage of all employment training leavers going into jobs, further education, or training and self-employment in 1990–91, 1991–92 and 1992–93.
§ Mr. Nicholls[holding answer 3 May 1990]: Th.e estimated percentage of all employment training leavers going into jobs, self-employment, further education or training is as follows:
Per cent. 1990–91 44 1991–92 48 1992–93 51
§ Mr. WallaceTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the actual spend and the budgeted spend in the standard regions on employment training for 1989–90.
§ Mr. NichollsProvisional outturn expenditure in 1989–90 on employment training (ET) for each region Js shown in the table. Information on budgets is for internal management purposes.
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£ millions South East 31.21 London 46.11 South West 25.60 West Midlands 43.23 East Midlands and Eastern 33.08 Yorkshire and Humberside 50.97
£ millions North West 56.11 Northern 42.10 Wales 32.74 Scotland 60.70 National Providers Unit 109.30 Note: These figures exclude expenditure on trainee allowances and other centrally administered ET expenditure.
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment, for each region, and for Great Britain, for each month since October 1988, what was the number of entrants to(a) job clubs, (b) employment training, (c) restart courses, and (d) enterprise allowance scheme.
§ Mr. EggarThe information for(b) and (d) is given in the following tables. As parts (a) and (c) of the question refer to programmes under the operational control of the employment service, Mr. Mike Fogden, the chief executive of the employment service, will be replying in writing to the hon. Lady.
Training agency regions of England South East London South West West Midlands East Midlands and Eastern Yorkshire and Humberside North West Northern Wales Scotland Great Britain1 1989 January 2,300 3,800 2,100 4,300 2,900 5,500 5,500 3,600 2,900 3,700 36,700 February 2,500 3,400 2,500 5,000 3,600 6,100 7,100 4,800 3,600 5,400 43,900 March 2,100 3,800 2,300 4,900 3,200 5,400 6,500 4,700 3,200 6,000 42,200 April 2,300 3,100 2,000 4,100 3,100 4,900 5,800 3,800 2,900 4,400 36,300 May 1,600 2,600 1,700 3,300 2,400 4,100 4,800 3,200 2,300 4,400 30,000 June 2,400 3,100 1,900 3,800 2,800 4,500 6,300 4,100 2,600 4,800 36,400 July 4,500 3,100 1,500 3,300 3,000 3,800 5,300 3,600 2,700 3,400 34,200 August 1,900 2,700 1,200 3,200 2,500 3,500 4,500 3,000 2,300 4,500 29,300 September 3,400 4,800 2,300 4,500 3,500 5,500 6,200 4,900 3,700 5,600 44,200 October 2,500 3,300 1,900 3,800 2,800 4,600 5,200 3,700 2,900 4,800 35,600 November 2,300 3,600 1,700 3,800 2,800 4,800 5,600 3,700 2,400 4,900 36,200 December 1,500 2,600 1,400 2,900 2,100 3,700 3,700 2,900 1,900 3,500 26,300 1 Great Britain total includes small number of trainees at Residential Training Colleges and Large Contractors not included in regional figures.
Training agency regions of England 1990 January February March South East 2,800 2,600 3,300 London 3,900 4,100 4,500 South West 2,000 1,800 2,500 West Midlands 3,600 4,500 5,300 East Midlands and Eastern 2,500 3,100 3,700 Yorkshire and Humberside 4,400 5,100 6,100 North West 5,400 5,900 7,300 Northern 3,300 4,100 4,900 306W
Entrants to the enterprise allowance scheme: October 1988 to April 1990 Training agency regions of England London South East South West West Midlands East Midlands North West North Yorkshire and Humberside Wales Scotland Great Britain 1988 October 896 811 763 790 675 1,211 452 777 502 639 7,516 November 1,015 812 809 881 721 1,303 465 739 601 648 7,994 December 820 769 690 657 693 1,139 391 774 513 542 6,988 1989 January 748 658 653 592 627 884 343 629 444 453 6,031 February 828 768 768 697 673 1,106 429 678 542 622 7,111 March 891 782 788 792 770 1,209 482 763 574 680 7,731 April 758 746 745 743 721 1,123 514 719 520 649 7,238 May 904 887 920 878 884 1,426 542 948 644 795 8,828 June 675 608 643 669 667 1,039 440 634 439 594 6,408
Numbers starting employment training with training managers: October 1988 to March 1990 Training agency regions of England 1988 October November December South East 2,100 2,000 1,700 London 3,100 3,100 2,400 South West 1,700 2,000 1,700 West Midlands 3,700 3,800 3,300 East Midlands and Eastern 2,700 2,900 2,200 Yorkshire and Humberside 4,500 5,500 4,400 North West 5,000 5,500 4,100 Northern 3,200 3,600 2,900 Wales 2,000 2,700 2,200 Scotland 3,100 4,100 3,900 Great Britain 31,100 35,200 28,900
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1990 January February March Wales 2,500 3,100 3,400 Scotland 3,900 5,300 6,300 Great Britain1 34,400 39,600 47,300 1Great Britain total includes small number of trainees at Residential Training Colleges and Large Contractors not included in regional figures.
London South East South West West Midlands East Midlands North West North Yorkshire and Humberside Wales Scotland Great Britain July 830 828 686 785 823 1,164 507 723 606 695 7,647 August 664 602 543 512 532 891 385 627 382 497 5,635 September 699 614 529 580 532 952 380 571 405 541 5,773 October 882 797 615 788 822 1,279 446 900 528 674 7,731 November 827 635 529 609 643 1,003 397 713 450 510 6,313 December 728 708 605 600 592 899 370 673 431 608 6,214 1990 January 636 539 493 377 509 731 249 491 310 385 4,720 February 672 643 513 558 527 832 313 537 353 495 5,443 March 706 646 550 611 631 908 342 636 382 524 5,936 April 663 655 564 590 694 940 351 563 440 628 6,038
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment, for each region, and for Great Britain, how many(a) employment training agents there are and how many have got through either stage one or stage two of the ATO process (b) employment training managers there are, and how many have got through either stage one or two of the ATO process and (c) youth training managing agents there are and how many have got through either stage one or stage two of the ATO process.
§ Mr. NichollsInformation on the numbers of employment training agents by region who have achieved approved training organisation status, stage one and stage two at 30 April 1990 is given in table 1. Table 2 shows similar information for training managers. Area offices and training and enterprise councils hold details of YT managing agents and ET training agents and training managers with whom they have contracted. To obtain the information would incur disproportionate cost.
Table 1 Training Agents Total who have achieved stage I at 30 April 1990 Scotland 18 Northern 13 North West 22 Yorkshire and Humberside 15 Wales 9 West Midlands 15 East Midlands 10 South West 9 South East 25 London 17 Great Britain total 153 Note: There are no stage II completions for training agents at 30 March 1990.
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Table 2 Training Managers Total who have achieved A TO stage I at 30 April 1990 Total who have achieved A TO stage II at 30 April 1990 Scotland 157 — Northern 90 — North West 117 — Yorkshire and Humberside 105 1 Wales 94 — West Midlands 68 1 East Midlands 77 1 South West 47 — South East 56 — London 47 —
Total who have achieved A TO stage I at 30 April 1990 Total who have achieved A TO stage II at 30 April 1990 RTC Unit 15 — ET LCU Great Britain total 873 3 RTC—Residential training college LCU—Large contractors unit
§ Mr. WallaceTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the number of contracts with training providers under the employment training scheme which have been re-negotiated, broken down by the standard regions.
§ Mr. NichollsThe information requested is not available.
§ Mr. WallaceTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how much notice was given to employment training providers by the Training Agency concerning the end of existing contracts.
§ Mr. NichollsAs required by contract, at least four weeks' notice in writing was given to all employment training providers concerning termination of agreements.
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether training and enterprise councils or employment training training managers are empowered to alter the child care payments being paid to single parents who have already started their training; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. EggarTraining and enterprise councils and area. offices of the Training Agency have discretion over the. means of providing child care support, but they must ensure that the costs of caring for children under 16 are met for lone parents on employment training.
§ Mr. LoydenTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he intends to designate employment training as an approved training scheme; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. NichollsMy Department has no plans to designate employment training as an approved training scheme. About 670,000 unemployed people to date have taken advantage of the help it offers them to obtain the skills and experience they need to get jobs.