HC Deb 31 January 1996 vol 270 cc820-1W
Mr. Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 14 December,Official Report, column 780, how many trainees (a) in total and (b) in each training and enterprise council area for whom a first stage payment is made are still in employment eight weeks later. [12460]

Mr. Hague

Information on individual trainees is not collected in the format requested and could be collected only at disproportionate cost. However aggregated information is available on the claims made by TECs for first and second stage job outcome payments and this has been provided in the following table. To take account of the time lag in claiming second stage payments, information has been provided on the first stage payments to the end of the second quarter, 10 September 1995, and the second stage job outcome payments to the end of the third quarter, 31 December 1995. The earliest opportunity for claiming the latter payments is eight weeks after the payment of first stage job outcomes.

Training for work job outcome payments made 27 March 1995 to 31 December 1995
TEC First stage payment Second Stage payment
Gwent 484 434
Mid Glamorgan 905 615
North East Wales 310 66
Powys 152 92
South Glamorgan 467 340
Targed 231 165
West Wales 736 493
Total 3,285 2,205

Source:

TEC claims: first stage payments to 10 September 1995 second stage to 31 December 1995.

Mr. Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 14 December,Official Report, column 780, if he will publish by individual TEC areas a breakdown of the NVQ levels attained by trainees undertaking training for work programmes. [12459]

Mr. Hague

The information requested is contained in the following table.

Training for work NVQ achievement by level 27 March 1995 to 3 December 1995
NVQ's Gwent Mid Glamorgan North-east Wales Powys South Glamorgan Targed West Wales Total
Sub Level 1 123 101 2 4 52 22 7 311
Level 1 336 248 60 23 206 121 431 1,425
Level 2 294 415 123 52 371 229 523 2,007
Level 3 71 48 28 50 36 109 45 387
Level 4 10 30 0 3 44 43 2 132
Level 4+ 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 3
Total 834 842 213 133 709 526 1,008 4,265

TEC management information statistics.

Mr. Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 14 December,Official Report, column 780, what percentage the long-term unemployed represent of (a) entrants to training for work, (b) those for whom a first stage payment is made and (c) those still in employment eight weeks later (i) in total and (ii) by individual TEC areas. [12461]

Mr. Hague

The information requested is not available in the form requested.