To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list for each training agency area the employment training training agents and training managers who have since the start of the programme (a) gone into liquidation, (b) not had contracts with the training agency renewed and (c) ceased to provide employment training for any other reason.
| Employment Training | ||||||||
| Destination of trainees leaving in period August 1989 to July 1990 (estimated) | ||||||||
| Region | Full-time job | Part-time job | Full-time Education/Training | Self-employed | Jobclub | Unemployed claiming benefit | Unemployed not claiming benefit | Other |
| per cent. | per cent. | per cent. | per cent. | per cent. | per cent. | per cent. | per cent. | |
| South East | 27 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 33 | 8 | 8 |
| London | 22 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 41 | 7 | 5 |
| South West | 26 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 35 | 6 | 8 |
| West Midlands | 26 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 45 | 5 | 8 |
| East Midlands and Eastern | 25 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 41 | 5 | 8 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | 27 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 43 | 4 | 6 |
| North West | 26 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 43 | 4 | 6 |
| Northern | 27 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 46 | 5 | 6 |
| Wales | 25 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 40 | 6 | 7 |
| Scotland | 25 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 47 | 4 | 7 |
| Great Britain | 25 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 43 | 5 | 7 |
Source: Respondents to the Employment Training Follow-up Survey.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list for each region and for Great Britain as a whole for each quarter since employment training was introduced the number of participants who (a) fell within the guarantee group and (b) fell within the aim group; and if he will make a statement.
The information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of places available on the employment training scheme for each year of operation; and how many places were in urban programme and partnership areas.
The information is not available in the precise form requested. However, information is available on the estimated number of ET starts, as shown in the table:
| ET starts (GB) | Percentage in inner cities | |
| September 1988-March 1989 | 238,600 | 42 |
| April 1989-March 1990 | 430,600 | 39 |
The information is not available in the form requested.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list for each region and for Great Britain as a whole, for the latest available period, the number and proportion of employment training trainees who three months after leaving were (a) in a full-time job, (b) in a part-time job, (c) in a full-time education or training course, (d) employed in their own business, (e) in a jobclub, (f) unemployed and claiming benefit and (g) unemployed and not claiming benefit.
The following table gives the proportions of trainees leaving employment training in the last 12-month period for which information is available arid their destinations. Detailed numbers as requested are unavailable.
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was Government spending on employment training at 1989 prices for each year of operation.
The table shows expenditure on employment training for each year of its operation to date at 1989–90 constant prices.
| £ million | |
| 1988–89 (from 5 September 1988) | 452 |
| 1989–90 | 1,097 |
| 1990–91 (to end December 1990) | 675 |