HC Deb 15 July 1993 vol 228 c614W
Mr. Clapham

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what is the total amount spent on redundancy pay in the coal mining industry since 1979.

Mr. Eggar

I refer to my reply to the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mr. Jones) on 13 July,Official Report, columns 437–38.

Mr. Clapham

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what is the total amount spent on retraining redundant mine workers since 1979.

Mr. Eggar

The information available on expenditure on retraining redundant mineworkers relates to British Coal's job and career change scheme (JACCS).

Total expenditure from the introduction of JACCS in June 1985 to the end of March 1993 was £42.98 million.

This figure does not include expenditure on those who entered retraining directly via other agencies, training and enterprise colleges, job centres, restart programmes etc.

Information about previous occupation and/or industry before entering a Government training scheme is not collected centrally.