§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment for each region and for Great Britain as a whole how many agreements have been made with employers to operate the job interview guarantee scheme since it was extended nationally in April 1991; how many unemployed people have taken part in the scheme in each area; and how many participants have secured full-time employment with their sponsoring employer.
§ Mr. McLoughlinResponsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service Agency under its Chief Executive. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from M. E. G. Fogden to Ms. Clare Short, dated 28 October 1992;
As the Employment Service is an Executive Agency, the Secretary of State has asked me to write to you direct to respond to your Parliamentary Question to her about the Job Interview Guarantee (JIG) initiative. This is something which falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Chief Executive of the Agency.You asked for each Region and for Great Britain as a whole how many agreements have been made with employers to operate the job interview guarantee scheme since it was extended nationally in April 1991, how many unemployed people have taken part in the scheme in each area, and how many participants have secured full-time employment with their sponsoring employer.We no longer ask regions for information on the number of agreements made with employers as we do not require it to monitor the success of the programme.Information on people taking part in the scheme, and those securing full-time employment is shown at Annex A. The information is broken down by region. At a national level we do not collect information by area.718WAs decided by the Administration Committee of the House of Commons, Chief Executive replies to written Parliamentary Questions will now be published in the Official Report. I will also place a copy of this letter in the Library of the House.
Annex A From April 1991 to 2 October 1992 Region Unemployed people assisted Unemployed people placed Northern 10,484 3,170 Yorkshire & Humberside 11,762 4,027 East Midlands & Eastern 12,704 4,178 London & South East 87,435 27,159 South West 18,910 6,408 Wales 15,121 4,875 West Midlands 24,542 7,379 North West 18,555 7,747 Scotland 25,839 10,665 Total 225,352 75,608