§ Mr. JackTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to the answer of 3 December 2001,Official Report, column 52W, if she will define the unnecessary restrictions on organisations in the recruitment industry, including the IT sector which are due to be removed by the draft Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations. [30695]
§ Alan JohnsonThe Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations will remove the following restrictions
(i) Preventing employment agencies offering, directly or indirectly, any financial benefit or benefit in kind to induce a work-seeker to use their services;(ii) Preventing employment agencies offering their services to a worker in employment, where the agent had previously received a fee for introducing him to that employment;(iii) Preventing employment businesses approaching a worker in employment, to induce the worker to agree to be supplied to a hirer;166W
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Redundancy notifications in England Avon 3,854 4,117 5,182 4,378 4,253 Bedfordshire 2,934 2,227 2,743 7,977 4,385 Berkshire 3,107 5,027 5,814 6,350 11,082 Buckinghamshire 4,506 4,061 4,318 4,823 5,280 Cambridgeshire 2,636 3,362 3,903 3,536 5,123 Cheshire 5,255 7,251 9,003 5,581 9,910 Cleveland 5,025 5,120 3,848 4,259 2,924 Cornwall 1,335 580 923 962 1,731 County Durham 2.660 3,856 2,214 3,065 3,604 Cumbria 2,671 1,967 3,886 5,411 4,561 Derbyshire 5.822 4,332 4,484 6,489 7,291 Devon 2,027 3,979 2,436 3,459 9,008 Dorset 1,201 2,353 1,252 2,495 3,408 East Sussex 363 1,945 1,164 423 1,486 Essex 4,823 8,152 7,550 9,184 9,467 Gloucestershire 2,347 3,987 2,294 2,966 4,756 Greater London 18,776 24,049 27,601 27,323 60,325 Greater Manchester 7,250 9,292 9,657 8,340 11,950 Hampshire 5,659 7,757 8,625 9,379 15,985 Hereford and Worcester 2,676 3,279 2,429 3,007 2,816 Hertfordshire 3,743 4,004 5,205 4,395 14,308 Humberside 3,373 2,558 1,255 3,524 1,434 Isle of Wight 252 386 313 578 1,090 Kent 5,979 6,863 7,107 21,848 7,812 Lancashire 11,008 11,340 15,901 15,244 17,974 Leicestershire 4,951 6,384 5,254 7,634 6,643 Lincolnshire 1,844 5,918 3,623 5,226 5,723 Merseyside 7,274 7,626 7,970 6,998 9,553 Middlesex 4,504 4,920 9,598 7,239 8,887 Norfolk 2,668 2,409 3,326 3,617 3,476 Northamptonshire 3,390 2,511 4,252 4,317 5,453 Northumberland 690 924 2,293 1,446 1,252 Nottinghamshire 4,755 5,812 8,721 9,133 7,681 Oxfordshire 2,120 2,107 4,139 4,761 5,453 Shropshire 1,706 1,634 2,979 3,606 3,028 Somerset 985 2,679 2,849 2,821 5,463 Staffordshire 4,165 6,710 5,916 7,592 9,767
(iv) The requirement for employment agencies and employment businesses to inform the Secretary of State in writing of their terms of business;
(v) The requirement for employment agencies and employment businesses to keep records on their premises.