§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the allocated budget of each of the training and enterprise councils which have become operational, showing the amount contracted for(a) youth training, (b) employment training and (c) enterprise allowance scheme.
Mr. JacksonThe allocated budgets for each of the operational training and enterprise councils (TECs) are as follows:
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Total allocated budget YT ET EAS £ million £ million £ million £ million South East Isle of Wight 1.50 0.65 0.34 0.15 Hertfordshire 10.10 4.44 1.96 1.34 Heart of England 4.25 2.24 0.81 0.33 Hampshire 13.18 7.72 3.0 0.89 Milton Keynes and North Bucks 2.80 1.52 0.59 0.18 Kent 8.54 5.36 2.66 0.74 Essex 14.47 9.90 5.41 1.65 Thames Valley 10.50 5.04 2.02 1.12 South West Somerset 6.88 3.69 1.24 0.70 Dorset 10.74 5.9 2.15 1.38 Devon/Cornwall 39.94 21.05 10.98 5.20 West Midlands Walsall 4.24 2.09 1.43 0.28 Coventry and Warwickshire 12.94 7.08 3.14 1.00 Staffordshire 16.71 10.02 3.43 0.92 East Midlands North Notts 12.02 6.70 2.56 0.95 Yorkshire and Humberside Calderdale/Kirklees 17.58 9.40 5.13 1.55
Total allocated budget YT ET EAS £ million £ million £ million £ million North Yorkshire 10.02 4.71 2.78 1.16 Rotherham 6.99 2.97 2.58 0.59 Sheffield 11.59 5.23 3.85 0.84 Leeds 8.59 3.77 2.48 0.94 North West South and East Cheshire 6.67 3.77 0.92 0.74 East Lancashire 12.56 6.71 2.95 1.16 METROTEC (Wigan) 6.12 3.42 1.83 0.64 Cumbria 13.94 7.77 2.92 1.07 Rochdale 5.60 2.64 1.61 0.56 Bolton and Bury 4.50 2.58 0.79 0.64 Oldham 7.40 4.36 1.40 0.58 Stockport and High Peak 4.76 2.55 1.11 0.66 Northern County Durham 15.91 8.64 5.15 0.21 Tyneside 31.23 17.1 7.6 2.60 Wearside 17.39 8.5 6.4 0.88 Teesside 28.68 14.8 11.8 1.94 Northumberland 7.04 3.49 1.77 0.78 Wales West Wales 17.74 7.15 6.11 2.53 North East Wales 5.48 3.05 1.28 0.53 Mid Glamorgan 11.83 6.70 4.28 0.98 Individual budget figures relate to the period from the date when the TEC became operational to the end of the 1990–91 financial year.
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many operational training and enterprise council chairmen and individual board members have had to resign; which training enterprise councils they have left; what reasons they gave for their resignations; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. JacksonNo operational training and enterprise council (TEC) chairmen have resigned. Nineteen board members have resigned for a variety of reasons, as follows:
TEC Number Reason Bolton and Bury 2 Extra pressure on time Devon and Cornwall 1 Extra pressure on time East Lancashire 2 One—company closed down; one—extra pressure on time Hertfordshire 2 Job changes North Yorkshire 2 Job changes Oldham 1 Job change Rotherham 1 Moved out of area Somerset 2 Extra pressure on time Teesside 2 One—retired; one—moved out of area Wearside 1 Company closed down West Wales 1 Firm gone into liquidation Wigan 2 One—ill health; one—job change Well over 1,200 key business leaders are involved with TECs and the initiative is some two years ahead of schedule.
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment which Government and training and enterprise councils training schemes he has designated as approved training for the purposes of the Social Security Act 1975; which of these schemes will recruit trainees over748W the age of 18 years; if it remains the Government's policy that employment training will remain a voluntary scheme; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. JacksonOnly youth training is currently designated as approved training for the purposes of the Social Security Act 1975. Youth training is primarily for under-18s, but some over-18s may also enter. There are no plans to designate employment training. Both youth training and employment training remain voluntary.
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give a list of those training and enterprise councils which have become operational, the number of board members on each of them and those training enterprise councils which are in the development phase, indicating when he expects each of them to become operational.
Mr. JacksonThirty-six TECs are operational and these are listed, with the number of board members for each TEC:
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Board Members South East Essex 15 Hampshire 11 Heart of England 12 Hertfordshire 11 Isle of Wight 14 Kent 15 Milton Keynes and North Bucks 15 Thames Valley Enterprise 13 South West Devon and Cornwall 15 Dorset 15 Somerset 14 West Midlands Coventry/Warwickshire 12 Staffordshire 15 Walsall 14 East Midlands and Anglia North Nottinghamshire 13 Yorkshire and Humberside Calderdale and Kirklees 15 Leeds 15 North Yorkshire 14 Rotherham 11 Sheffield 15 North West Bolton/Bury 15 Cumbria 12 S and E Cheshire 9 ELTEC 13 METROTEC 14 Oldham 14 Rochdale 14 Stockport and High Peak 11 Northern County Durham 15 Northumberland 13 Teesside 14 Tyneside 14 Wearside 13 Wales Mid Glamorgan 15 North East Wales 12 West Wales 15 Forty-six TECs are in their development phase, and I confidently expect that they will be operational by summer 1991.
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many board members are currently serving on operational training and enterprise councils; how many of them are women or are from an ethnic minority; how many of the training and enterprise councils have a woman or person from an ethnic minority as chairman; which sectors the board members came from, showing those from(a) the private sector, (b) local authorities, (c) trade unions, (d) local education authorities, (e) voluntary organisations and (f) health authorities; and how many training and enterprise councils' chief executives are also board members.
Mr. JacksonThere are currently 487 board members serving on the 36 operational training and enterprise councils (TECs). Of these, 49 are women. None of the TECs operational to date has appointed a woman as chairman.
Information is not kept on the ethnic origin of TEC board members.
The number of board members originating from the sectors identified are as follows:
Table 1 Employment service referrals to employment training: October 1989 to September 1990 London and South East South West West Midlands East Midlands and Eastern Yorkshire and Humberside North West Northern Wales Scotland Great Britain 1989 October 15,300 4,000 7,700 5,000 7,300 11,900 6,600 5,100 12,400 75,200 November 31,100 7,700 15,100 10,900 15,100 23,500 13,000 10,200 24,400 150,900 December 44,100 10,700 20,900 15,500 21,500 32,100 17,600 14,000 33,500 209,900 1990 January 61,100 15,000 29,600 21,500 29,900 44,700 24,200 19,400 45,000 290,600 February 78,400 19,500 39,600 27,700 38,900 57,800 30,600 24,800 57,900 375,100 March 98,300 24,800 49,900 34,800 49,000 73,300 37,700 30,700 72,000 470,400 April 107,700 27,200 55,300 39,500 54,800 81,200 41,400 34,300 79,500 520,900 May 119,300 29,800 61,000 43,600 60,600 89,700 45,700 38,100 87,900 575,700 June 131,600 33,200 67,000 48,600 67,200 99,600 50,400 42,100 98,300 638,100 July 142,200 36,200 72,100 53,100 73,100 107,900 54,600 45,500 105,200 689,900 August 155,700 40,600 77,500 57,900 79,800 117,900 59,400 49,700 115,400 754,000 September 167,700 44,400 83,400 62,600 85,900 127,000 64,600 53,700 122,800 812,000
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Table 2 Employment training Action plans agreed at training agents: October 1989 to March 1990 Training agency region 1989 1990 October November December January February March South East 3,100 5,700 8,200 11,200 15,100 19,500 London 4,600 9,300 13,200 17,200 21,800 27,500 South West 2,200 4,600 6,400 8,500 11,000 14,200 West Midlands 4,200 8,600 12,100 16,200 21,800 28,000 East Midlands and Eastern 2,700 5,700 8,200 10,700 14,200 18,400 Yorkshire and Humberside 4,900 9,800 14,400 19,200 24,800 31,600 North West 6,300 12,300 16,700 22,000 28,700 37,100 Northern 4,400 8,700 12,300 16,500 21,200 26,100 Wales 2,800 4,500 6,300 8,900 12,500 16,300 Scotland 5,800 12,000 16,300 20,800 26,300 33,300 Great Britain 41,000 81,400 114,000 151,000 197,200 252,100
Number Private sector 339 Local authorities 47 Trade unions 26 Local education authorities 16 Voluntary organisations 14 Health authorities 11 There are currently 22 chief executives who are also TEC board members.
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish up-to-date figures for Great Britain and each region for each month since September 1989 showing the cumulative number of(a) referrals to ET from the Employment Service to training agents, (b) agreed ET action plans at training agents, (c) starts with ET training managers, (d) the number in training on ET each month and (e) the number of people who left ET each month.
Mr. JacksonThe information on referrals is given in table 1. Information for the period to March 1990 on action plans, starts, in training and leavers is given in tables 2, 3, 4 and 5. Information on action plans is not collected from April 1990. Information from April 1990 about the number of starts with training managers and leavers is not available. In training figures are not available for regions from April 1990. Estimated in training figures from April for Great Britain are given at table 6.
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Table 3 Cumulative starts at employment training managers: October 1989 to March 1990 Training agency region 1989 1990 October November December January February March South East 2,500 4,900 6,400 9,200 11,700 15,100 London 3,400 6,900 9,500 13,400 17,500 22,000 South West 1,900 3,600 4,900 7,100 9,000 11,400 West Midlands 3,700 7,500 10,400 14,000 18,500 23,800 East Midlands and Eastern 2,800 5,500 7,600 10,100 13,300 17,000 Yorkshire and Humberside 4,600 9,400 13,100 17,400 22,500 28,600 North West 5,200 10,900 14,600 19,900 25,800 33,000 Northern 3,700 6,700 9,600 12,900 17,000 21,900 Wales 2,900 5,300 7,200 9,700 12,900 16,300 Scotland 4,800 9,700 13,200 17,100 22,400 28,700 Great Britain1 35,500 71,800 98,000 132,500 172,500 219,800 1 Includes starts at Residential Training Colleges and Large Contractor Trainees not included in regional totals.
Table 4 Employment Training Filled Places: October 1989 to March 1990 Training Agency Region 1989 1990 October November December January February March South East 14,900 14,800 14,300 14,700 14,900 15,100 London 20,700 21,100 21,000 21,800 22,300 22,700 South West 12,300 12,200 11,900 12,100 11,800 11,900 West Midlands 23,200 23,200 22,500 21,900 22,400 22,600 East Midlands and Eastern 16,800 16,800 16,600 16,400 16,400 16,100 Yorkshire and Humberside 25,200 25,200 25,100 24,700 25,000 25,600 North West 28,800 29,800 28,800 28,900 29,000 29,600 Northern 24,300 24,400 24,200 23,700 23,300 23,100 Wales 16,600 16,600 16,100 15,900 16,100 15,900 Scotland 25,700 26,400 26,100 25,900 26,300 26,400 Great Britain1 209,000 212,000 208,000 207,000 209,000 210,000 1 Great Britain total includes small number of trainees at Residential Training Colleges and Large Contractors not included in regional figures.
Table 5 Employment Training Leavers: October 1989 to March 1990 Training Agency Region 1989 1990 October November December January February March South East 2,400 4,900 6,900 9,300 11,600 14,800 London 2,900 6,000 8,700 11,800 15,400 19,500 South West 1,600 3,400 5,000 7,000 9,300 11,500 West Midlands 3,800 7,800 11,300 15,500 19,500 24,600 East Midlands and Eastern 2,900 5,600 7,900 10,600 13,700 17,800 Yorkshire and Humberside 4,600 9,400 13,200 17,900 22,700 28,200 North West 5,500 10,200 14,900 20,100 25,900 32,500 Northern 4,400 7,200 10,400 14,200 18,600 23,700 Wales 2,800 5,200 7,500 10,300 13,200 16,800 Scotland 4,100 8,400 12,200 16,300 21,200 27,400 Great Britain1 34,400 68,200 98,300 133,300 171,800 217,600 1 Includes leavers at Residential Training Colleges and Large Contractor trainees not included in regional totals.
Table 6 Employment training filled places April 1990-October 1990: (Estimated) Month April 1990 210,000 May 208,000 June 199,000 July 191,000 August 185,000 September 184,000 October 190,000
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the output-related targets for employment training-youth training for each of the training and enterprise councils which have become operational; what proportion of each of the training and enterprise councils' budgets will be paid only if they achieve these targets; and if he will make a statement.
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Mr. JacksonOutput-related targets for employment training and youth training are negotiated with individual training and enterprise councils and reflect local circumstances. Generally, the agreed target has been 10 per cent, of the total TEC budget; this payment is made for the attainment of relevant vocational qualifications under youth training and jobs secured under employment training.