34.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the total number of employment training referrals from the employment scheme to training agents in each of the months of November and December 1989 and the number of ET starts in each of those months.
The information requested is given in the following table.
| Employment training Great Britain | ||
| Month | Employment service referrals to employment training | Starts with training managers |
| November | 75,700 | 36,200 |
| December | 59,100 | 26,300 |
39.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he has any plans to introduce a compulsory element to employment training.
My right hon. and learned Friend has no current plans to change the basis on which employment training operates. Employment training is a highly successful programme with 209,000 voluntary participants in training.
46.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on employment training in Greater Manchester.
Employment training in Greater Manchester, as nationally, continues to make excellent progress. It is currently helping nearly 9,700 unemployed people to get the skills and experience they need to obtain jobs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people on the Government employment training scheme have left the training course before the completion of their programme in the Yorkshire region in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
The information requested is not available.
77.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he has any plans to modify employment training.
I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Stevenage (Mr. Wood) on 5 March 1990, Official Report, column 507.