HC Deb 16 March 1992 vol 205 cc834-5W
Mr. Chris Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many, and which, training and enterprise councils have notified his Department in writing about a failure to deliver(a) the youth training guarantee or (b) the employment training requirement as required under the TEC contract for 1991–92; how many individual youth training and employment training cases this involved; how the problems were resolved; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Jackson

The delivery of the YT and ET guarantee is a contractual commitment upon the TECs. Additional funds have been provided in the year 1991–92 to the following TECs:

  • Essex
  • Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire
  • Somerset Avon
  • Dudley
  • Hereford and Worcester
  • Sandwell
  • Shropshire
  • Walsall
  • Sheffield
  • Rochdale
  • Bolton and Bury

This is consistent with maintaining the delivery of the guarantees. Meanwhile, the existence of a procedure under which individuals may register problems covering their treatment under the training guarantees is an important aspect of the policy in guarantees, and will continue under the new TEC operating agreement for 1992–93.