HC Deb 08 July 1992 vol 211 cc233-4W
Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) if she will publish details, for the nine standard economic regions, of the total numbers of entrants, excluding community programme transfers, to employment training by sex, ethnic origin and disability, for each year since the start of the scheme;

(2) if she will publish the 100 per cent. youth training scheme leavers survey for each training and enterprise council in the north-west, showing the destinations of trainees by ethnic origin, sex and disability and by scheme type, for each year since the start of the scheme;

(3) if she will publish details for each training and enterprise council in the north-west region of the destinations of employment training trainees, by ethnic origin, sex and disability, for each year since the start of the scheme;

(4) if she will publish details of the numbers and percentages of youth training trainees in the north-west who have employed or trainee status, and the breakdown by sex, ethnic origin and disability, for each year in the period 1990–92 inclusive.

Mr. McLoughlin

As the information requested is contained within a number of tables I will write to the hon. Member.

Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what advice is given to young people for whom suitable youth training places are not available.

Mr. McLoughlin

The Careers Service gives vocational advice and guidance to young people. In addition to the training route, the service encourages young people to explore all the other options and their suitability for them; for example, further education and employment, to enable them to make informed careers decisions. For those young people they identify as having potential eligibility for benefits or allowances, general advice is given such as how and where to make a claim.

Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what assessment she has made of whether there are enough suitable youth training places available in all parts of the United Kingdom.

Mr. McLoughlin

The Department's contracts with TECs call for regular monitoring and review at local level of the numbers of young people covered by the YT guarantee who are seeking a place. This local monitoring is carried out by our officials, training and enterprise councils and other interested parties such as the Careers Service. Following discussion with representatives of TECs and the Careers Service we are putting into place new measures to establish a national system of monitoring in England. We believe that these arrangements safeguard the interests of young people seeking training.

Matters in the rest of the United Kingdom are for my right hon. Friends, the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Wales and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will list those areas in which the youth training guarantee is being delivered in full.

Mr. McLoughlin

Information on the extent of demand for YT from young people covered by the YT guarantee is available only in the form of estimates which are not sufficiently reliable for publication. The Government remain fully committed to ensuring that the YT guarantee will be met everywhere.