§ Mr. MaddenTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what arrangements exist in Bradford for those undertaking employment training to be supplied with tools necessary for their training and with necessary equipment for undertaking courses of study as part of their ET; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe contract with Bradford and District training and enterprise council, which is responsible for delivering adult training in Bradford, requires that the TEC sets out in any contract with a training supplier the arrangements to be made for the provision of any necessary protective clothing and/or equipment for participants on adult training. If to follow the training programme a participant requires protective clothing and/or equipment it will be provided.
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§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people who got jobs after doing employment training still had that job six months later, in this year and each preceding year.
§ Mr. McLoughlin[holding answer 1 March 1993]: Although there is information on jobs immediately after leaving an ET scheme and on jobs six months after leaving a scheme, there is no information on whether it is the same job. Therefore, the information requested is not available.
Employment training: planned entrants, entrants, job outcomes for Great Britain (numbers and pecentage) Year proportion of all leavers Planned entrants Actual entrants Proportion completing training Into a job1immediately after their training September 1988 to March 19892 300,000 238,600 n/a n/a April 1989 to March 1990 560,000 430,600 344 337 April 1990 to March 1991 430,000 394,100 438 433 April 1991 to March 1992 260,000 7291,600 555 531 April 1992 to March 1993 248,000 6 7210,700 n/a n/a 1 Jobs includes full-time, part-time and self-employment 2 ET started in September 1988 3 Surveying of leavers did not start until July 1989 and this was done three months after they left their programme 4 Results from leavers three months after leaving training 5 From January 1991 leavers were surveyed six months after leaving their training 6 January 1993 is the latest period for which starts information is available. Survey data is not available for 1992–93 leavers 7 Provisional estimates Source: Training Statistics 1990; OSMOSIS, Scottish and Welsh MIS; National Follow-up Survey; PES.