HC Deb 22 March 1993 vol 221 cc474-5W
Mr. Worthington

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish by local enterprise company area(a) the numbers on youth training, employment training and employment action programmes, (b) the skills that are being learnt by youth training, employment and employment action participants, (c) the number and percentage of youth training, employment training and employment action participants who move on to full-time, permanent jobs and (d) the academic and vocational qualification achieved by participants on youth training and employment training schemes.

Mr. Stewart

[holding answer 10 March 1993]: Information by local enterprise company area about the skills that are learnt by youth training, employment training and employment action participants; and the number and percentage of such participants who move on to full-time permanent jobs is not available in the form requested. Information by local enterprise company area about the numbers on youth training, employment training and employment action as at January 1993; and the academic and vocational qualifications achieved by participants on youth training and employment training for the period April 1992 to January 1993 is set out in the tables:

Participants as at January 1993 Vocational qualifications achieved 6 April 1992 to January 1993
Youth Training Employment Training
Local enterprise company area YT ET EA Word Power Number Power VQ Level 1 VQ Level 2 VQ Level 3+ Word Power Number Power VQ Level 1 VQ Level 2 VQ Level 3+
Enterprise Ayrshire 3,227 1,503 330 74 45 50 561 247 2 216 266 12
Scottish Borders Enterprise 529 117 37 30 44
Dumfries and Galloway Enterprise 909 485 152 15 133 50 100 37
Dunbartonshire Enterprise 1,728 841 192 34 31 244 82 15 15 148 55 3
Fife Enterprise 3,383 947 159 3 6 335 164 3 92 35 4
Forth Valley Enterprise 2,726 769 127 28 30 23 354 161 18 19 70 166
Glasgow Development Agency 4,758 3,569 671 34 20 17 667 360 283 270 652 429 50
Grampian Enterprise1 2,785 342 88 13 57 21 20 15 12
Lanarkshire Development Agency 3,176 1,396 367 20 17 33 389 209 2 211 157 94
Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd. 4,184 1,246 573 3 38 340 201 51 265 12
Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey 434 166 14 92 17 1 1
Renfrewshire Enterprise 2,070 992 248 27 13 8 246 189 179 281 7
Scottish Enterprise Tayside 2,730 924 270 20 313 209 1 157 81 39
1Since April 1991 a pilot Youth Credits Scheme, Grampian Skillseekers, has operated in the Grampian Enterprise area in place of Youth Training. Of the 2,785 young people shown, 2,756 were receiving training under the Skillseekers scheme and 29 were residual participants in Youth Training.

Participants as at January 1993 Vocational qualifications achieved 6 April 1992 to January 1993
Youth Training Employment Training
Local enterprise company area YT ET EA Word Power Number Power VQ Level 1 VQ Level 2 VQ Level 3+ Word Power Number Power VQ Level 1 VQ Level 2 VQ Level 3+
Western Isles Enterprise 249 113 60 32 12
Ross and Cromarty Enterprise 433 138 37 5 48 4
Caithness and Sutherland Enterprise 278 202 37 2 23 3 1
Skye and Lochalsh Enterprise 67 42 6 3 9 1
Lochaber Ltd. 130 63 26 11 4 1
Orkney Enterprise 158 25 1 11 9 1
Shetland Enterprise 239 54 1 21 11 2
Inverness and Nairn Enterprise 362 186 45 25 60 12 4
Argyll and the Islands Enterprise 413 191 46 44 32 15 1

Data are subject to increase as late returns received from Training Providers.

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