§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what plans she has to review the youth training and employment training schemes in England; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe training and enterprise councils working group has been set up at the invitation of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to look at the whole range of education and training options available to 16 to 19-year-olds, and see how better co-ordination and coherence might be achieved.
In the meantime we are progressively extending training credits with the aim of ensuring that, by 1996, every 16 and 17-year-old leaving full-time education will have the offer of a training credit.
A review of adult training provision was only recently completed. My right hon. Friend announced on 12 November a new programme, training for work, to replace both employment training and employment action. Training for work gives greater flexibilities to training and enterprise councils to design programmes which will most effectively meet the needs of unemployed people.
§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many young people leaving youth training in 1991–92 will have gained a national vocational qualification level 2 or higher.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe information requested is not yet available.