§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will provide a list of the qualifications against which training and enterprise councils may claim an output-related funding bonus in youth training and employment training, and the numbers of output bonuses claimed against each qualification; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. JacksonThere are over 700 vocational qualifications which are accepted by the Employment Department in payments to TECs for output-related funding (ORF) in youth training and employment training. I have arranged for a copy of the January 1992 edition of the Department's listings of acceptable vocational qualifications to be placed in the Library. In addition to these vocational qualifications, TECs may in some cases claim for the achievement of GCSEs, A/S levels and A levels.
Figures for ORF payments against individual vocational qualifications are not collected, and it would not be cost effective to do so. Available figures are for payments by national vocational qualification (NVQ) (or equivalent) level. Payments for the numbers of trainees achieving NVQs on ET and YT in England and Wales during the 1991–92 financial year to 5 January 1992 are given in the following table.
566Wentering youth training, both in total, and disaggregated by employee and trainee status, for each quarter between April 1991 and the latest available date; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. JacksonInformation about the number of entrants is given in the following table. A breakdown by employed and trainee status is not available.
Numbers of payments to TECs for trainees in England and Wales achieving national vocational qualifications (1 April 1991 to 5 January 1992) Number Youth training (including credits) NVQ level 1 3,015 NVQ level 2 34,221 NVQ level 3 or above 10,262 Employment training NVQ level 1 or 2 19,060 NVQ level 3 or 4 1,293 NVQ level 2 (for skills shortage trainees and labour market returners who also gain employment) 555 NVQ level 3 or 4 (for skills shortage trainees and labour market returners who also gain employment) 111 Source: TEC invoice.