Market Testing

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To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list all the market tests that have taken place in his Department since November 1992 and indicate, in each case, whether the result was the maintenance of in-house provision, or whether the service was contracted out.

Four tests have been completed since November 1992, all of which are included in the Employment Department headquarters' 1992–93 market-testing programme:

(i) van service—3 van service runs were tested, 2 were contracted out and 1 remained in-house;

(ii) travel service—was contracted out;

(iii) the Field System—was contracted out;

(iv) TECs and National Providers Unit—was con-tracted out.

Volume 226: debated on Thursday 17 June 1993