§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland to whom in Scotland, outside Government, any details of individuals, companies or providers in receipt of either employment training, youth training, business growth training or enterprise allowance scheme have been passed; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Allan StewartI am not in a position to say, for every case in Scotland, to whom outside Government details have been passed of individuals, companies or providers involved with employment training, youth training, business growth training or the enterprise allowance scheme.
In normal circumstances details relating to current trainees will be held by training managers and training agents and will be made available to local enterprise officials and officials of Scottish Enterprise or Highlands and Islands Enterprise as necessary for operational purposes. Details of individual trainees may also be given to placement providers and to the careers service where it is appropriate to do so for the purposes of securing suitable training.
Details of companies and training providers will normally be held by local enterprise companies and in 346W some cases their agents but Scottish Enterprise or Highlands and Islands Enterprise officials may have access to that information for operational purposes.
Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and local enterprise companies will not normally divulge any information they hold to a third party unless they are satisfied that the trainee, company or provider has acquiesced to the provision of that information or where the person or body seeking the information has authority to demand it—for example, the police.