§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the budget for employment training and youth training in 1991–92 for each training and enterprise council.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe information requested for each training and enterprise council (TEC) in England is shown in the following table.
Information for Wales is for my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Wales to answer.
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TEC budgets for Employment Training and Youth Training for 1991–92 £ millions TEC ET YT London AZTEC 2.4 3.4 CENTEC (16 September 1991) 3.2 3.2 CILNTEC (14 October 1991) 2.2 3.1 LETEC 9.0 10.5 North London (16 September 1991) 3.2 2.4 North West London (l6 September 1991) 1.8 1.5 SOLOTEC 3.8 4.7 South Tames (27 May 1991) 7.0 5.3 West London (16 September 1991) 2.0 3.4 South East Essex 5.8 12.3 Hampshire 5.0 16.8 Heart of England 1.6 4.9 Hertfordshire 2.8 5.4 Isle of Wight 0.6 1.6 Kent 5.5 14.3 Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire 1.2 3.5 Surrey 1.8 4.5 Sussex 4.5 11.2 Thames Valley Enterprise 2.4 13.6 South West Avon 6.0 13.0 Devon and Cornwall 10.5 22.1 Dorset 2.5 7.1 Gloucester 1.9 6.4 Somerset 1.7 6.4 Wiltshire 1.7 6.3 West Midlands Birmingham 16.6 15.1 Central England 2.2 4.8 Coventry 4.9 12.9 Dudley 2.9 5.1 Hereford and Worcester 2.0 4.7 Sandwell 2.8 5.2 Shropshire 2.9 6.6 Staffordshire 6.0 19.6 Walsall 3.2 4.5 Wolverhampton 3.1 5.0 East Midlands and Anglia Leicester 4.7 14.2 Northamptonshire 2.5 6.2 Lincolnshire 3.7 11.1 Greater Nottingham 4.7 11.2 North Nottingham 5.0 8.2 South Derbyshire 4.1 9.2 North Derbyshire 2.2 6.2 Norfolk and Waveney 4.7 12.4
TEC ET YT Suffolk 1.8 4.5 Bedfordshire 1.7 7.0 Greater Peterborough 1.6 4.3 CAMBSTEC 0.7 3.2 Yorkshire and Humberside Leeds 5.5 10.6 North Yorkshire 3.5 5.1 Bradford 4.7 6.9 Calderdale/Kirklees 5.5 9.8 Wakefield 3.2 6.0 Barnsley and Doncaster 7.5 14.1 Sheffield 6.8 12.6 Rotherham 3.3 6.0 Humberside 10.6 18.5 North West Bolton and Bury 2.5 6.6 CEWTEC 7.4 10.4 Cumbria 3.4 10.3 ELTEC 3.5 8.6 LAWTEC 6.1 12.9 Manchester 9.9 16.9 METROTEC 2.4 5.1 Oldham 1.6 4.7 QUALITEC 2.3 5.5 Rochdale 2.1 2.9 South and East Cheshire 1.8 4.2 Stockport and High Peak 1.7 4.9 Merseyside (24 June 1991 12.6 20.8 NORMID (24 June 1991) 2.3 7.1 Northern Teesside 11.8 14.8 Tyneside 13.5 20.1 Wearside 6.6 9.4 County Durham 10.6 15.7 Northumberland 3.5 5.1 Notes:
1. Where TECs became operational after 1 April 1991, the dates arc shown in brackets.
2. ET Budgets exclude notional allowances (ie unemployment benefit +£ 10).
§ Mrs. RocheTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what steps she is taking to ensure that training and enterprise councils cater appropriately for people with special learning difficulties.
§ Mr. McLoughlinTECs are obliged through their contracts with the Employment Department to ensure that suitable high quality training is available for all trainees with special training needs. This includes people with learning difficulties. TECs' business plans are examined before approval to ensure that they have included objectives and targets for helping people with special training needs.
The Employment Department's regional contract managers review TECs' achievements against objectives at regular intervals.
Inspectors of the Training Standards Advisory Service are also used by the Employment Department's regional offices to examine specific issues including special needs provision.
§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the budget for employment training and youth training in 1990–91 for each training and enterprise council.
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§ Mr. McLoughlinThe allocated budgets for ET and YT for each of the approved training and enterprise councils (TECs) for the financial year 1990–91 are set out in the following table.
Individual budget figures relate to the period from the date when the TEC became operational to the end of the 1990–91 financial year.
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TEC budgets for Employment Training and Youth Training for 1990–91 £ millions TEC ET YT London AZTEC (12 November 1990) 0.7 0.9 South East Essex (23 July 1990) 3–6 7.0 Hampshire (17 September 1990) 3.0 7.7 Heart of England (17 September 1990) 0.8 2.3 Hertfordshire (3 April 1990) 1.9 4.4 Isle of Wight (15 October 1990) 0.3 0.7 Kent (12 November 1990) 2.1 4.5 Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire(17 September 1990) 0.6 1.6 Thames Valley Enterprise (3 April 1990) 2.0 6.4 South West Devon and Cornwall (30 April 1990) 11.1 20.1 Dorset (30 April 1990) 2.0 5.5 Gloucester (7 January 1991) 0.3 0.8 Somerset (23 July 1990) 1.3 4.0 West Midlands Birmingham (12 November 1990) 4.4 4.7 Coventry (10 September 1990) 3.2 7.0 Staffordshire (5 October 1990) 3.3 10.1 Walsall (15 October 1990) 1.4 2.0 East Midlands and Anglia North Nottingham (25 May 1990) 2.7 7.2 South Derbyshire (7 January 1991) 0.7 2.2 Norfolk and Waveney (12 November 1990) 1.8 5.3 Suffolk (12 November 1990) 0.6 2.9 Greater Peterborough (4 February 1991) 0.1 0.4 CAMBSTEC (4 February 1991) 0.4 0.1 Yorkshire and Humberside Leeds (15 October 1990) 2.3 3.2 North Yorkshire (25 May 1990) 2.4 4.0 Bradford (7 January 1991) 0.7 1.1 Calderdale/Kirklees (3 April 1990) 4.8 9.3 Wakefield (7 January 1991) 0.5 0.1 Barnsley and Doncaster (7 January 1991) 1.3 2.0 Sheffield (1 October 1990) 3.3 4.7 Rotherham (30 July 1990) 2.2 2.8 North West Bolton and Bury (15 October 1990) 0.8 2.5 Cumbria (30 April 1990) 2.8 8.6 ELTEC (28 May 1990) 3.1 6.8 Manchester (12 November 1990) 3.6 5.3 METROTEC (23 June 1990) 1.8 3.7 Oldham (30 April 1990) 1.4 4.4 Rochdale (30 April 1990) 1.6 2.3 South and East Cheshire (9 April 1990) 1.6 4.6 Stockport and High Peak (20 August 1990) 0.8 1.6 Northern Teesside (30 April 1990) 12.4 15.5 Tyneside (30 April 1990) 14.4 17.1 Wearside (30 April 1990) 7.3 8.5 County Durham (1 October 1990) 5.2 8.6 Northumberland (17 September 1990) 1.8 3.5 Wales Gwent (4 February 1991) 0.4 0.6 North West Wales (4 February 1991) 0.3 0.4 South Glamorgan (4 February 1991) 0.4 0.3
TEC ET YT West Wales (23 July 1990) 6.1 7.5 North East Wales (17 September 1990) 1.2 3.1 Mid Glamorgan (27 July 1990) 4.2 6.7 Notes:
1. The dates when the TECs became operational are shown in brackets.
2. ET budgets exclude notional allowances (ie unemployment benefit + £ 10).
§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what proportion of the costs of the Government's youth training, employment training and employment action programmes are met by social security benefits, European social fund or her Department's funding.
§ Mr. McLoughlinIn 1992–93 the Employment Department expects to spend £ 851 million on youth training (YT), £ 807 million on employment training (ET) and £ 178 million on employment action (EA), including allowances for participants.
An estimated 47 per cent. of ET expenditure and 45 per cent. of EA expenditure is for that part of participant allowances which is equivalent to previous entitlement to social security benefits. Young people on YT are not generally entitled to such benefits.
The latest information available in respect of the European social fund (ESF) is for 1991 when £ 157 million was received for ET and £ 16 million for YT. There was no ESF receipt for employment action. Expected receipts from the ESF are taken into account in setting the total expenditure plans for ET and YT.
§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what plans she has to change the youth training guarantee; and if she will make a statement;
(2) if she will make a statement about the youth training guarantee.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThere are no plans to change the YT guarantee. The guarantee provides for the offer of a suitable YT place to young people under 18 who are unemployed, not in full-time education and seeking training. The Government are committed to ensuring that the guarantee will be met.
§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will list the representations she has received from(a) training and enterprise councils (b) local education authority career services and (c) employers about the youth training guarantee.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe information is not available.
§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will publish figures of the number of young people seeking a youth training place for (i) standard regions of the Training, Enterprise and Education Directorate, (ii) training and enterprise councils or local education authority careers service areas or (iii) another convenient form, for the most recent date for which the information is available.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe information requested is not available.
§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will give the total number of 51W participants in youth training for the most recent date for which figures are available and in the previous three years for Great Britain and each of the standard regions broken down by sex and those on employer-based schemes.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe full information asked for is not available. The following table gives numbers of young
Youth Training—;Numbers in Training in Great Britain March 89 March 90 2March 91 1March 92 Male Female Total Male Female Total Total Total South East 25,800 13,500 39,300 24,900 12,900 37,700 25,800 32,300 London 13,400 6,900 20,300 13,300 6,600 19,900 12,700 21,500 South West 18,400 10,900 29,300 17,200 9,900 27,100 20,500 22,100 West Midlands 24,700 17,500 42,200 22,400 15,100 37,500 31,500 29,800 East Midlands and Eastern 27,800 16,500 44,300 26,200 15,300 41,500 21,900 38,300 Yorkshire and Humberside 25,900 17,500 43,400 23,200 15,000 38,300 28,800 28,600 North West 35,200 22,900 58,100 31,000 19,600 50,600 30,600 48,600 Northern 17,400 11,900 29,300 15,700 10,800 26,500 19,700 20,800 Wales 14,700 8,200 22,900 13,900 7,900 21,800 16,400 16,500 Scotland 29,100 18,400 47,600 26,600 16,200 42,800 37,100 37,300 Great Britain 232,400 144,200 376,600 214,500 129,300 343,800 3314,200 295,800 Figures are individually rounded and may not add up to the totals. Notes:
1 March 1992 Youth Training and Training Credits figures are subject to adjustment.
2 Information not available for males and females for March 1991 and March 1992.
3 Total for March 1991 includes 69,200 trainees covered by providers contracted nationally and not included in the regional totals.
Source:
March 1989, 90: Spectrum
March 1991, 92: Osmosis/Pes 92.
§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will list as per the requirement set out in the TEC operating agreement the number of youth training starts and the number of youth training trainees in training at the end of the four-weekly period as set out in the schedule of management information for(a) the most recent period for which information is available, (b) each of the previous periods hack to 1 to 26 April 1991 and (c) for each TEC.
§ Mr. McLoughlinAs the information requested is contained within a number of tables I will write to the hon. Member.
§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment when she last met representatives of training and enterprise councils to discuss the delivery of the youth training guarantee.
Youth Training Scheme/Youth Training—;Minimum allowance levels (£) 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 31992–93 Minimum allowance (YT/YTS)1 25.00 26.25 27.30 27.30 28.50 29.50 29.50 29.50 29.50 29.50 At 1992–93 price level 41.70 41.75 41.10 39.79 39.40 38.04 35.68 32.98 30.82 29.50 Minimum allowance (YT/YTS)2 —; —; —; 35.00 35.00 35.00 35.00 35.00 35.00 35.00 At 1992–93 price level —; —; —; 51.02 48.39 45.12 42.34 39.13 36.57 35.00 1 Minimum level of allowance payable to first year trainees until 29 May 1990. Payable to 16 year old trainees thereafter. 2 Minimum level of allowance payable to second year trainees until 29 May 1990. Payable to trainees aged 17 and above thereafter. 3 1992–93 price levels obtained by application of appropriate GDP deflator index. Note: The Youth Training Scheme (YTS) was replaced by Youth Training (YT) on 29 May 1990.