§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) if he will give for each region and for Great Britain as a whole for each year since the introduction of the scheme(a) the number of people who were helped by the travel-to-interview scheme, (b) the number of people whose applications for help were turned down and (c) the amount of expenditure on the travel-to-interview scheme; if he will give the latest information he has on whether those helped were successful in getting the jobs, and on the reasons for their applications being rejected; and if he will make a statement;
(2) for the latest available period for Great Britain and for each region how many Restart interviewees fell within the guarantee group and how many fell within the aim group; how many of each group were submitted or placed in either (a) employment training, (b) enterprise allowance scheme, (c) job club, (d) job interview guarantee or (e) employment action; and of those claimants in the guarantee or aim group how many were not made an offer of help because (i) they were already on or about to start on a scheme, (ii) they were about to leave the unemployment register, (iii) an offer could not be made because there was no appropriate scheme place available or (iv) an offer could not be made due to the claimant's attitude, behaviour or severity of their problem.
Mr. JacksonQuestions on operational matters in the Employment Service executive agency are the responsibility of Mike Fogden, the agency's chief executive, to whom I have referred this question for reply.