To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what has been the number of Government-funded training for work placements, with title of scheme, each year since the introduction of the job creation programme. [34025]
The information is shown in the following table and covers all adult and youth programmes:
| Number of adult and youth programme starts1 for each financial year from 1978–79 to 1994–95 | ||||||||||||
| Great Britain, numbers | ||||||||||||
| Year | Total for all programmes | Community Industry | Community programme2 | Enterprise allowance/ business start-up3 | Youth opportunities programme | Voluntary projects programme | Youth training4 5 | Training opportunities programme6 | Industrial language training scheme7 | Occupational training8 | Business training | Employment action |
| 1978–79 | 258,800 | 6,700 | 19.700 | — | 162,200 | — | — | 70,200 | — | — | — | — |
| 1979–80 | 338,400 | 8,900 | 22,400 | — | 216,400 | — | — | 90,700 | — | — | — | — |
| 1980–81 | 469,200 | 8,200 | 18,400 | — | 360,000 | — | — | 82,600 | — | — | — | — |
| 1981–82 | 674,800 | 9,000 | 34,300 | — | 553,000 | — | — | 71,200 | 7,300 | — | — | — |
| 1982–83 | 655,900 | 8,900 | 12,100 | 2,500 | 543,100 | — | — | 72,600 | 8,900 | — | — | — |
| 1983–84 | 647,200 | 9,600 | 134,400 | 27,600 | — | — | 370,000 | 80,100 | 11,500 | — | — | — |
| 1984–85 | 797,000 | 9,500 | 161,400 | 46,000 | — | 63,000 | 397,000 | — | 11,300 | 58,200 | 6,500 | — |
| 1985–86 | 1,045,000 | 9,500 | 241,200 | 60,000 | — | 71,500 | 406,000 | — | 13,800 | — | — | — |
| 1986–87 | 1,358,500 | 9,800 | 307,500 | 86,800 | — | 80,300 | 420,000 | — | 19,300 | — | — | — |
| 1987–88 | 1,402,900 | 9,800 | 269,100 | 106,300 | — | 105,600 | 399,000 | — | 17,600 | — | — | — |
| 1988–89 | 1,263,500 | 10,800 | 84,000 | 98,500 | — | 88,200 | 408,000 | — | 17,200 | — | — | — |
| 1989–90 | 893,000 | — | — | 78,000 | — | — | 384,000 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1990–91 | 797,000 | — | — | 60,000 | — | — | 347,800 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1991–92 | 655,400 | — | — | 50,000 | — | — | 290,400 | — | — | — | — | 22,000 |
| 1992–93 | 686,000 | — | — | 41,000 | — | — | 286,700 | — | — | — | — | 67,000 |
| 1993–94 | 669,000 | — | — | 40,600 | — | — | 290,300 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1994–95 | 655,900 | — | — | 31,200 | — | — | 303,700 | — | — | — | — | — |
Source:
Training Statistics.
Notes:
1 Including second and subsequent starts.
2 Includes Special Temporary Employment Programme (1978–79 to 1980–81). Community Enterprise Programme (1981–82) and Community Programme (1982–83 to 1988–89).
3 EAS was replaced by BSUS in April 1991 BSUS is a TEC delivered programme based on local needs.
4 YT/YTS figures may not correspond to earlier published figures due to periodical updating.
5 From April 1990 YTS became YT.
Except for the following, all figures were obtained from the relevant Training Agency Branch/Section.
6 Training Opportunities Programme (TOPS), up to 1979–80 from Annual Reports.
7 Industrial Language Training Scheme (ILTS), figures prior to 1987–88 from Annual Reports. Figures prior to 1981–82 are not available separately. ILTS was part of Training Within Industry (TWI) which was part of TOPS and comprised several smaller schemes. The ILTS figure is therefore included in the TOPS total for these years.
8 Occupational Training (OT), Business Training (BT) and Work Preparation (WP), figures from Annual Reports.
The Youth Opportunities Programme was split into two parts, Work Experience (WE) included in the figures are a) Work Experience on Employers Premises (WEEP), b) Community Projects (CP) and Work Preparation (WP) included in the figures are (a) Short training Courses, (b) Remedial and Preparatory Courses (mainly work induction courses and young people's work preparation courses) and c) Assessment and Employment Induction Courses.
Number of adult and youth programme starts1 for each financial year from 1978–79 to 1994–95
| |||||||||||
Great Britain numbers
| |||||||||||
Year
| Work preparation
| Old job training scheme
| New job training scheme
| Training for Enterprise
| Access to information technology
| Local grants to employers
| Self-standing work preparation
| Training linked to community programme
| Employment training/training for work
| Open tech
| National priority skills scheme2
|
| 1978–79 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1979–80 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1980–81 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1981–82 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1982–83 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 7,800 |
| 1983–84 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6,000 | 8,000 |
| 1984–85 | 23,000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3,100 | — | 12,000 | 6,000 |
| 1985–86 | — | 54,800 | — | 20,300 | 28,200 | 53,300 | 34,300 | 20,600 | — | 20,000 | 11,500 |
| 1986–87 | — | 68,800 | 2,100 | 67,000 | 32,200 | 131,700 | 48,800 | 42,900 | — | 33,000 | 8,300 |
| 1987–88 | — | 49,200 | 99,100 | 107,000 | 22,100 | 123,500 | 46,200 | 41,400 | — | — | 7,000 |
| 1988–89 | — | 24,300 | 50,700 | 89,800 | — | 106,800 | 27,900 | 16,600 | 238,600 | — | 2,100 |
| 1989–90 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 431,000 | — | — |
| 1990–91 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 389,000 | — | — |
| 1991–92 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 293,000 | — | — |
| 1992–93 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 291,000 | — | — |
| 1993–94 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 338,400 | — | — |
| 1994–95 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 321,100 | — | — |
Source:
Training Statistics.
Note:
1 Including second and subsequent starts.
2 National Priority Skill Scheme; prior to 1986 figures are from Annual Reports. The figure for 1984 has been estimated. The Youth Opportunities Programme was split into two parts.
Work Experience (WE): included in the figures are a) Work Experience on Employers Premises (WEEP).b) Community Projects (CP) and Work Preparation (WP): included in the figures are a) Short Training Courses, b) Remedial and Preparatory Courses (mainly work induction courses and young people's work preparation courses) and c) Assessment and Employment Induction Courses.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will provide incentives to training and enterprise councils to encourage firms of under 50 employees to commit themselves to investment in people programmes. [34727]
Training and enterprise councils have some £55 million available in 1995–95 to help employers to move towards investors in people. Employers normally need to contribute to the cost on a matched funding basis but TECs have the discretion to exempt those with under 50 employees from this requirement. Almost 9,000 firms with under 50 employees are formally committed to achieving the investors in people standard. I will be considering proposals for performance targets for TECs for 1995–96 during the autumn.The Department has other provisions aimed specifically at training in small firms. Over three years from April 1995, £63 million is available through skills for small businesses to help 24,000 key workers in small firms to become training champions and train others in their firms.The competitiveness White Paper "Forging ahead", published in May 1995, includes £5 million for the small firms training challenge. A prospectus will be published shortly, seeking bids from group of small firms.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what consideration she has given to the introduction of a training levy; and if she will make a statement. [34952]
The introduction of a general training levy is not under consideration. The Government remain committed to deregulation—removed burdens on firms, not increasing them.