HC Deb 24 March 1994 vol 240 c368W
Mr. Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to his answer of 14 February,Official Report, column 644, if (a) where applicable, he will place in the Library the results of any market research relating to the campaigns and (b) he will publish (i) the number of people attending the new horizons events, (ii) the number of responses from employers to the workstart campaign, (iii) the number of people who took up the jobfinders grant, (iv) the number of places offered by employers in the work trials and the take-up by unemployed people and (v) the number of people and voluntary organisations taking part in the community action programme during this financial year.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

When the results of the market research are available, I will arrange for copies to be placed in the Library. The answers to the remaining questions are:

(i) To date the number of people who have attended the new horizons events is 7,800. (ii) As a result of the workstart campaign there have been in excess of 1,200 inquiries from employers. (iii) The jobfinder's grant was launched on 7 February 1994 in the east and west midlands. Up to 11 March 373 people had received grants. (iv) To the end of January 1994, the latest date for which figures are available, 11,319 unemployed people had taken part in a work trial. Figures on the number of work trials offered by employers are not collected. (v) To the end of February 1994, the latest date for which figures are available, 11,728 people had taken part in community action. Figures for the number of voluntary organisations taking part in community action are not available.