§ Mr. WallaceTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) how many people over 25 years and under 50 years were unemployed and not on the employment training scheme in 1989–90 and 1990–91; and what is his latest estimate of the number of people over 25 and under 50 years who are currently unemployed and not on the employment training schemes or other training schemes being operated through the training and enterprise council and local enterprise company network;
(2) how many under-25s were unemployed and not on the employment training scheme in 1989–90 and 1990–91; and what is his latest estimate of the number of under-25s currently unemployed and not on the employment training schemes or other training schemes being operated through the TEC and LEC network.
Mr. JacksonThe information requested can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the House of Commons Library. Those on job-related Government schemes are included in the employment estimates and are, therefore, not counted in the unemployment figures.
§ Mr. WallaceTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the funding block 3 budget240W allocation to all training and enterprise councils in England and Wales and to all local enterprise companies in Scotland for 1991–92.
Mr. JacksonFunding block 3 budgets for 1991–92 for each of the 75 operational TECs in England and Wales are set out in the table.
Responsibility for answering that part of the question which relates to the Scottish local enterprise companies lies with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland.
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£ million Funding block 3 £ million South East Essex 3.320 Hampshire 2.667 Heart of England 1.200 Hertfordshire 2.385 Isle of Wight .515 Kent 3.150 Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire .711 Surrey 1.679 Sussex 3.380 Thames Valley Enterprise 1.870 London AZTEC 1.430 LETEC 2.70 SOLOTEC 1.940 STTEC 2.793 South West Avon 3.491 Devon and Cornwall 6.070 Dorset 3.921 Gloucester 1.600 Somerset 1.530 Wiltshire 1.540 West Midlands Birmingham 4 110 Central England 1.360 Coventry 2.590 Dudley 1.006 Hereford and Worcester 1.167 Sandwell 1.013 Shropshire 1.492 Staffordshire 2.900 Walsall .890 Wolverhampton 1.028 East Midlands and Anglia Leicester 2.853 Northamptonshire 1.522 Lincolnshire 1.878 Greater Nottingham 2.078 North Nottinghamshire 1.456 South Derbyshire 1.908 North Derbyshire 1.154 Norfolk/Waverney 2.163 Suffolk 1.315 Bedfordshire .985 GP TEC .601 CAMBSTEC .709 Yorkshire and Humberside Leeds 2.273 North Yorkshire 2.048 Bradford 1.670 Calderdale and Kirklees 2.056 Wakefield 1.054 Barnsley and Doncaster 2.165 Sheffield 2.492 Rotherham .985
Funding block 3 . million Humberside 3.168 North West Bolton/Bury 1.665 CEWTEC 2.443 Cumbria 1.596 ELTEC 1.759 LAWTEC 2.764 Manchester 4.506 METROTEC 1.043 Oldham .795 QUALITEC .608 Rochdale .775 South and East Cheshire 1.088 Stockport HP 1.520 Northern Teesside 2.521 Tyneside 3.820 Wearside 1.413 Durham 2.716 Northumberland 1.475 Wales Gwent 1.655 North East Wales 1.384 North West Wales 1.631 Mid Glamorgan 1.719 Powys .590 South Glamorgan 1.461 West Wales 3.490
§ Mr. WallaceTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) how many persons aged 16 years were in receipt of the £29.50 a week training allowance in 1989–90 and 1990–91; and how many are currently in receipt of this level of training allowance;
(2) how many persons aged 17 years were in receipt of the £35 a week training allowance in 1989–90 and 1990–91; and how many are currently in receipt of this level of training allowance;
(3) how much was spent in training allowances for persons aged 16 and 17 years, respectively, in 1989–90 and 1990–91; and how much money has been allocated to the training and enterprise councils and local enterprise companies, for training allowances for persons aged 16 and 17 years respectively, in 1991–92.
Mr. JacksonInformation on numbers of 16 and 17-year-old youth training—YT—trainees who receive minimum allowances of £29.50 and £35 per week respectively is not available. The Exchequer contribution towards trainee allowances cannot be separately identified because employers also contribute and a proportion of trainees are employed and receive wages. Expenditure on YT, including minimum allowances in allocations to training and enterprise councils and local enterprise companies in 1991–92, will be some £844 million.
§ Mr. WallaceTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total budget in 1988–89 and 1989–90 for those programmes which are now the responsibility of training and enterprise councils and local enterprise companies and are funded by the funding block 3 budget allocations.
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Mr. JacksonExpenditure in 1988–89 and 1989–90 on programmes which are broadly comparable to those now operated by training and enterprise councils and local enterprise companies with block 3 funding, was as follows:
£ million 1988–89 250 1989–90 209
§ Mr. WallaceTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment which of the programmes his Department ran directly before the establishment of the training and enterprise councils in England and Wales and the local enterprise companies in Scotland, are now run by training and enterprise councils and local enterprise companies and funded by the funding block 3 budget allocations.
Mr. JacksonBlock 3 broadly corresponds to business growth training and the enterprise allowance scheme which were previously run by my Department's area offices. Training and enterprise councils and local enterprise companies have however been given a flexible remit to undertake business and enterprise activities in their area using this funding block.
§ Mr. Ray PowellTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what measures he has taken to encourage businesses to provide training opportunities for employees aged 16 to 19 years in 1991; and what measures he is currently undertaking in that direction.
Mr. JacksonThe Government have put in place a wide range of measures to encourage businesses to train their 16 to 19-year-old employees. Youth training encourages employers to offer high quality training. Training credits are being offered on a pilot basis to further encourage young people moving into employment to train. The Government are supporting compacts in urban programme areas and similar areas in Scotland and Wales, under which local employers guarantee young people a job with training, or training leading to a job, in return for their working towards agreed goals. A new standard— investors in people—is being introduced to promote employer commitment to developing their employees, including young people.
Building on these measures, the comprehensive proposals in the recent White Paper "Education and Training for the 21st Century" are designed to further increase training opportunities for young people, particularly through the nationwide extension of training credits, the expansion of the compacts approach, and improvements to the qualifications system.
§ Mr. WallaceTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) how many people aged over 25 years and under 50 years were on the employment training scheme in 1989–90 and 1990–91; and what is his latest estimate for the numbers of people aged over 25 years and under 50 years currently enrolled in the employment training schemes through the TEC and LEC network;
(2) how many under-25s were on the employment training scheme in 1989–90 and 1990–91; and what is his latest estimate for the numbers of under-25s currently enrolled on the employment training schemes through the TEC and LEC network.
Mr. JacksonInformation about entrants to employment training in the age groups requested for 1989–90 and 243W the latest available for 1990–91 is given in table 1. Information for those TECs operational during the period April-November 1990, the latest dates for which information is available, is given in table 2.
Table 1 Employment training Entrants by age group 1989–90 and April-November 1990 Great Britain Age group 1989– Per cent April-November 1990 Per cent 18–24 36 35 25–50 58 60 51 and over 6 5
Table 2 Employment training Entrants by age group April-November 1990 TECs Age group April-November 1990 Per cent 18–24 36 25–50 58 51 and over 5 Source: ET Management Information System and ET starts database.