§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary off State for Employment if he will list, for each region and for Great Britain as a whole for the latest available period, the number and proportion of ET trainees who three weeks after leaving were(a) in a full-time job with their work experience provider, (b) in a full-time job with another employer, (c) in a part-time job, (d) in full-time education or on a training course, (e) employed in their own business, (f) in job clubs, (g) in voluntary work, (h) unemployed and claiming benefit and (i) unemployed and not claiming benefit.
Mr. JacksonThe destinations of trainees leaving employment training between December 1989 and November 1990, three months after leaving, are shown in the following table. Percentages only are provided, because not all trainees respond to the follow-up survey.
Employment training Proportion gaining qualifications or credits All leavers between October 1989 to September 1990 Region Obtained qualification or credit Awaiting results Percentage Percentage South East 28 4 London 20 4 South West 27 5 West Midlands 23 5 East Midlands and Anglia 24 5 Yorkshire and Humberside 23 4 North West 22 4 Northern 28 5 Wales 26 4 Scotland 27 5 Great Britain1 25 4 Source: Employment Training Follow up Survey.
1 Includes some trainees with nationally contracted training providers.
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§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give, for each region and for Great Britain as a whole for the latest available date, the amounts paid to(a) ET providers and (b) YT providers in the form of ex-gratia payments to compensate them for hardship caused by recontracting; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. JacksonIn the 1990–91 financial year, my Department operated a special ex-gratia compensation scheme for ET providers. Where a contract with a training provider was foreclosed or modified substantially, reducing contracted volumes or recruitment earlier than the last effective day of the contract, my Department undertook to make an ex-gratia payment. There was no similar arrangement for youth training.
The table shows the provisional outturn expenditure to end March 1991 under the special employment training ex-gratia payments arrangements.
Region Amount £ South East 97,000 London 74,000 South West 166,000 West Midlands 190,000 East Midlands and Eastern Nil Yorkshire and Humberside 19,000 North West 102,000 Northern 262,000 Wales 56,000 Scotland 47,000 National providers 302,000 Total 1,315,000
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the number of employment training trainees who were being paid their training allowance and/or training premium by the Employment Service in each month since April; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. JacksonThe information requested is provided in the following table. I am glad that employment training continues to help so many unemployed people in their efforts to find employment.
Employment training trainees receiving employment training allowances—May 1990 to April 1991 Number May 1990 202,795 June 194,459 July 187,196 August 180,916 September 179,955 October 185,988 November 190,041 December 194,045 January 1991 189,109 February 198,413 March 192,279 April 167,427 Source: Employment Service records.Employment Service