HC Deb 12 July 1995 vol 263 cc658-9W
Mr. Chidgey

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many of the people who participated in the original workstart pilot programme started in 1993 currently(a) employed with the original employer, (b) employed with another employer, (c) in training or education and (d) unemployed. [32366]

Mr. Forth

Approximately one third of the participants in the original workstart pilots are still on programme and therefore employed with the original employer. Destinations of participants who have left the programme will be obtained from a follow-up survey which is due to report in November 1995.

Mr. Chidgey

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what obligation lies on employers in the second phase of workstart pilot schemes to provide training for people taken on. [32368]

Mr. Forth

Employers receiving a workstart subsidy are not required to offer training.

The evaluation of the initial workstart pilots found that nearly two thirds of employers felt new workstart recruits had the necessary skills to undertake the job adequately and they required no more help than would have been otherwise offered to new recruits.