To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what information he has as to how many employees of (a) the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders, (b) the community task force and (c) the Apex trust, supported by funds from the community programme or job training scheme, have been issued with redundancy notices during the transition from CP/JTS to ET; and how many have been issued with redundancy notices during the operation of ET to date.

Information is not available in the precise form requested.The following figures are for employees declared redundant, within the meaning of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978, during the transition from the community programme and the job training scheme to employment training and during the operation of employment training to date: