HC Deb 27 June 1994 vol 245 c447W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list what training opportunities for disabled persons there are at the Barnsley/Doncaster training and enterprise council.

Miss Widdecombe

The training programmes open to people with disabilities are training for work and youth training. Disabled people are exempt from eligibility rules for these programmes.

Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the age, sex and the number of persons currently undergoing training at the Barnsley/ Doncaster training and enterprise council; and what were the figures in each year since its inception.

Miss Widdecombe

Details of age groups are not collected and are therefore unavailable. Information by sex is shown in the table:

Barnsley and Doncaster Training and Enterprise Council
Male Female Total
Youth training starts
1991–92 (actual—part-year only) 465 337 802
1992–93 (actual) 3,183 2,432 5,615
1993–94 (actual) 2,781 2,224 5,005
Adult training—training for work
1991–92 (actual—part-time only) 1,278 577 1,855
1992–93 (actual) 4,003 1,591 5,594
1993–94 (actual) 7,298 2,647 9,945

Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many disabled persons have been trained at the Barnsley/Doncaster TEC since its inception; and of these, how many received employment on completion.

Miss Widdecombe

Since the training and enterprise council's inception a total of 559 people with disabilities have started training; of these, 271–48 per cent.—have secured employment.