HC Deb 26 March 2001 vol 365 cc506-7W
Mr. Martyn Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to the Ceredigion constituency, the effects on Ceredigion of his Department's policies and actions since 2 May 1997. [1549751

Mr. Wills

Outlined are details of the effects of a range of the Department's policies on the Ceredigion constituency. The Welsh Assembly will be able to provide details of education policies.

Modern Apprenticeships

Numbers of known starts on modern apprenticeships for the requested constituency since 2 May 1997 (as at 30 November 2000) are as follows, broken down by financial year:

Ceredigion
Financial year Foundation modern apprenticeships1 Advanced modern apprenticeships2 Total
1997–98 0 134 134
1998–99 46 98 144
1999–2000 168 64 232
2000–013 138 44 182
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Total 352 340 692
1 Foundation modern apprenticeships, formerly known as national traineeships, were introduced nationally in September 1997.
2 Advanced modern apprenticeships, formerly known as modern apprenticeships, were introduced nationally in September 1995.
3 To date

Notes:

  1. 1. The Trainee Database System (TDS), from which these data are taken, is less complete than Management Information supplied to the Department by Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) (around 95 per cent.).
  2. 2. In addition, the postcode information on the TDS, from which parliamentary constituency data are compiled, are 95 per cent. complete.
  3. 3. TEC Management information does not provide information at parliamentary constituency level.

Source:

WBTYP trainee database

New Deal for Young People

In the Ceredigion constituency, 704 young people have joined the New Deal to end December 2000. 341 have found jobs, 282 of which are sustained.

Labour market statistics

The claimant unemployment rate has fallen from 5.8 per cent. in February 1997 to 4.2 per cent. in February 2001 in the Ceredigion constituency.

Employment zone

The constituencies of Caernarfon, Ynys MÔn and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy are covered by the North West Wales Employment Zone. The zone began operating in May 2000 and by December 2000, 882 people had started on the Employment Zone. Of these people 37 had entered employment by December 2000.