Labour Statistics

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the latest number of (a) referrals to job clubs, (b) the number of starts with job clubs, (c) the number of job club leavers and (d) the number of job club leavers getting jobs or becoming unemployed for Great Britain and each Training Agency region for each month since May 1989.

From May 1989 to November 1989, 81,725 people started ith a job club. During the same period,

	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	Total
Scotland
Starts	1,452	1,841	1,202	1,586	2,017	1,898	1,909	11,905
Total leavers	1,810	1,942	1,460	1,661	1,968	1,744	1,708	12,293
Job entries	1,043	1,116	777	923	1,161	1,005	981	7,006
Other positive outcomes	225	254	188	275	316	228	268	1,754
Northern
Starts	743	860	714	689	1,075	1,082	982	6,145
Total leavers	876	995	723	691	988	842	878	5,993
Job entries	460	496	367	355	485	434	414	3,011
Other positive outcomes	116	140	116	83	131	110	127	823
Yorkshire and Humberside
Starts	919	1,033	991	926	1,339	1,317	1,305	7,830
Total leavers	1,006	1,240	877	915	1,268	1,133	1,081	7,520
Job entries	621	712	500	537	723	692	661	4,446
Other positive outcomes	128	188	113	124	231	157	150	1,091
North West
Starts	1,731	2,050	1,588	1,689	2,210	2,185	2,400	13,853
Total leavers	1,968	2,096	1,722	1,705	2,121	1,910	1,930	13,452
Job entries	1,080	1,185	971	920	1,189	1,049	1,063	7,457
Other positive outcomes	250	263	234	247	337	265	268	1,864
East Midlands and Eastern
Starts	798	1,093	833	856	1,110	1,064	1,204	6,958
Total leavers	919	978	923	816	1,079	959	908	6,582
Job entries	568	610	537	476	679	590	545	4,005
Other positive outcomes	108	160	150	161	194	161	156	1,090
West Midlands
Starts	811	1,028	899	971	1,234	1,317	1,303	7,563
Total leavers	961	1,037	862	912	1,239	1,173	1,171	7,355
Job entries	495	562	451	503	627	647	624	3,909
Other positive outcomes	164	180	163	148	217	206	173	1,251
Wales
Starts	510	684	599	637	758	813	781	4,782
Total leavers	597	780	598	563	757	661	673	4,629
Job entries	381	397	355	326	448	394	408	2,709
Other positive outcomes	97	86	94	98	125	82	84	666
South West
Starts	527	547	451	518	605	608	727	3,983
Total leavers	580	608	471	460	563	557	555	3,794
Job entries	323	354	254	266	326	345	298	2,166
Other positive outcomes	66	95	78	70	100	84	79	572
London and South East
Starts	2,075	2,544	2,394	2,436	3,062	3,093	3,102	18,706
Total leavers	2,276	2,617	2,389	2,277	2,777	2,615	2,670	17,621
Job entries	1,119	1,133	926	1,008	1,303	1,277	1,254	8,020

there were 79,239 leavers, of whom 42,729 left to start work, a further 11,954 going on to some other positive outcome such as training, education or self-employment. Regional and monthly breakdowns are given in the table.

Because of the very large number of potential referrals points, the employment service does not keep statistics of referrals.

All job club members are unemployed and separate records are not kept of the number remaining out of work on ceasing to attend.

	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	Total
Other positive outcomes	333	442	396	374	502	360	436	2,843
National
Starts	9,566	11,680	9,671	10,308	13,410	13,377	13,713	81,725
Total leavers	10,993	12,293	10,025	10,000	12,760	11,594	11,574	79,239
Job entries	6,090	6,565	5,138	5,314	6,941	6,433	6,248	42,729
Other positive outcomes	1,487	1,808	1,532	1,580	2,153	1,653	1,741	11,954

Volume 165: debated on Tuesday 23 January 1990