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Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many unemployed people have been referred to the following outcomes as a result of their restart interviews and, for each of the outcomes, how many people started or attended (a) job, (b) restart course, (c) ET, (d) CP, (e) new JTS, (f) jobclub, (g) EAS, (h) voluntary work/VPP, (i) ERC, (j) DRO and
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(k) claimant adviser for the Training Agency covering the Doncaster area, for each of the latest four three monthly periods available.Mr. Lee : The information requested is given in the table. The figures relate to the employment service, Humberside south area. We do not know how many people ultimately obtain a job or other opportunity as a result of the restart interview.
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|April-June 88 |July-September |October-December|January-March 89
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(a) Job |467 |666 |476 |520
(b) Restart Course |74 |104 |162 |222
(c) ET (since 09.88) |0 |915 |2,741 |2,591
(d) CP<1> |396 |142 |0 |0
(e) New JTS<1> |1,723 |1,611 |0 |0
(f) Jobclub |467 |382 |473 |437
(g) EAS |191 |218 |239 |223
(h) Voluntary Work/VPP<1> |108 |52 |0 |0
(i) ERC |9 |18 |0 |0
(j) DRO |288 |292 |272 |270
(k) Claimant Adviser |742 |831 |633 |452
<1> To September 1988.
Tourism (Yorkshire and Humberside)
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the top 20 tourist attractions in numbers of tourists attending or visiting Yorkshire and Humberside.
Mr. Lee : The English tourist board's annual survey of visits to attractions gives the following figures for the Yorkshire and Humberside regional tourist board area in 1988 :
|Number of visits
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York Minster |2,100,000
Flamingo Land |1,001,000
Jorvik Viking Centre |865,909
National Museum of Photography |824,811
Rother Valley Country Park |689,329
Castle Museum, York |640,705
National Railway Museum |565,574
Hornsea Pottery |500,000
Tropical World, Leeds |500,000
Lightwater Valley Theme Park |421,121
Bridlington Leisure World |350,748
Sheffield City Museum |321,106
Fountains Abbey |274,414
North Yorkshire Moors Railway |250,000
Leeds City Art Gallery |236,223
Bolton Abbey |233,130
York Dungeon |231,149
Thyrbergh Country Park, Doncaster |225,000
Bronte Parsonage, Haworth |212,545
Dalby Forest Drive |205,000
Jobcentres (Doncaster and Mexborough)
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what checks are carried out by his Department's staff in the jobcentres at Doncaster and
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Mexborough, to establish whether vacancies advertised are offering rates of pay which fall below wages council rates.Mr. Lee : Jobcentres have full details of wages council minimum rates of pay and instructions that, where vacancies are notified for occupations affected by wages council orders, rates must not be less than those specified.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether any vacancies advertised by his Department's jobcentres in Doncaster and Mexborough on 26 June were offering rates of pay which fall below wages council rates.
Mr. Lee : On 26 June, Doncaster jobcentre was displaying five vacancies and Mexborough jobcentre had three vacancies which were covered by wages council orders. I am informed that none of the vacancies concerned was advertising rates of pay below the minimum wages council rates.
Tourism (Cambridgeshire)
Mr. Paice : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total value of tourism in Cambridgeshire at current prices in each of the years from 1979 to 1989.
Mr. Lee : The available information for Cambridgeshire is shown in table 1 and relates to expenditure by overseas visitors to the United Kingdom who made a trip of at least one night to Cambridgeshire. Information about spending by domestic residents is available only for the whole of the East Anglia tourist board region, and is shown in table 2 together with the equivalent information for overseas visitors. Figures for tourist expenditure by United Kingdom residents on day trips to Cambridgeshire or East Anglia are not available.
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Table 1
Estimated spending in
Cambridgeshire by overseas
residents<1><2>
|£ million
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1979 |31
1980 |34
1981 |34
1982 |31
1983 |58
1985 |42
1986 |69
1987 |73
1988 |81
Table 2
Estimated spending in East Anglia<3>
£ million
|By overseas residents<1>|By British residents<2> |Total
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1979 |111 |295 |406
1980 |96 |308 |404
1981 |95 |339 |434
1982 |95 |349 |444
1983 |126 |391 |517
1984 |125 |<4>346 |471
1985 |147 |350 |497
1986 |157 |445 |602
1987 |179 |490 |669
1988 |189 |555 |744
<1>Source: International Passenger Survey.
<2>Source: British Tourist Authority.
<3>East Anglia Regional Tourist Board comprising: Cambridgeshire together with Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.
<4>From 1984 an improved method of estimating expenditure was introduced for domestic spending. Figures for 1984 and later
years are, therefore, not strictly comparable with those for earlier years.
Employment Rehabilitation Centres
Mr. Alfred Morris : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if, pursuant to the reply to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe, on 14 June, Official Report, column 436, he will publish in the Official Report any changes to policy or guidelines which have
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caused a 50 per cent. reduction in the average length of attendance at employment rehabilitation centres ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. Nicholls : The average length of stay of all clients in ERCs has reduced because many more people are finding short courses of assessment and guidance are meeting their needs. However, in 1989 the length of stay on rehabilitation courses was 35 days and has remained consistent over the last five years. I am also pleased to report that the number of people helped by the ERS has increased from 12,000 in 1984-85 to about 26,000 in 1988-89.
Mr. Ashley : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the future of the employment rehabilitation centres which share sites with skillcentres, when the Skills Training Agency is moved into the private sector.
Mr. Lee : The employment rehabilitation service, which includes employment rehabilitation centres, will continue. Contingency plans are being drawn up for individual centres on shared sites which may be affected in varying degrees by the move of the Skills Training Agency into the private sector.
Mr. Thornton : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many letters and representations he has received concerning the future of the construction industry training board and its statutory levy since the publication of his paper "Employment for the 1990s".
Mr. Nicholls : A total of 253 letters and representations have been received by my Department.
Youth Training Scheme
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give (a) the number of YTS places available and (b) the number of young people in training in each region, Scotland and Wales for each month from October 1988 to May 1989, inclusive.
Mr. Cope : The information is shown in the table.
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Number of agreed YTS places and number of young people in YTS training in each region of England, Wales and Scotland for each month during period October
to March 1989 (in thousands)
October 1988 November 1988 December 1988 January 1989 February 1989 March 1989 April 1989 May 1989
|Agreed places|In training |Agreed places|In training |Agreed places|In training |Agreed places|In training |Agreed places|In training |Agreed places|In training |Agreed places|In training |Agreed places|In training
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South East |62.1 |46.2 |61.7 |45.6 |61.7 |44.0 |60.1 |42.0 |60.3 |40.8 |58.9 |40.0 |57.9 |39.6 |57.1 |38.8
London |33.3 |23.2 |33.1 |22.9 |31.6 |22.5 |31.3 |22.1 |31.2 |21.4 |30.3 |21.2 |29.9 |20.8 |29.4 |20.7
South West |46.1 |34.6 |45.9 |33.6 |45.9 |33.0 |45.9 |32.0 |43.7 |31.3 |43.4 |30.5 |41.8 |30.0 |40.7 |29.2
West Midlands |71.3 |50.4 |72.5 |49.1 |72.0 |48.3 |70.8 |47.2 |71.3 |44.5 |69.1 |43.6 |67.5 |43.2 |66.5 |42.2
East Midlands and Eastern 66.52.0 66.2 51.1 65.2 50.1 65.2 49.3 65.2 47.8 63.5 46.6 62.1 46.0 61.6 44.7
Yorkshire and Humberside 60.851.3 60.9 50.1 61.0 49.1 61.5 48.3 61.8 46.7 61.4 45.2 60.8 45.1 60.2 43.7
North West |82.4 |67.9 |82.8 |67.1 |83.0 |65.9 |82.1 |64.6 |81.8 |63.0 |80.5 |60.7 |77.8 |59.2 |76.2 |58.4
Northern |40.4 |33.2 |40.5 |33.0 |40.4 |32.6 |40.4 |31.8 |40.4 |21.0 |39.6 |30.5 |38.5 |30.0 |38.1 |29.2
Wales |29.8 |26.2 |29.9 |25.6 |29.8 |25.5 |29.8 |24.8 |29.4 |24.2 |29.0 |23.8 |28.2 |23.9 |28.1 |23.6
Scotland |63.4 |50.2 |63.5 |49.8 |63.5 |48.9 |63.2 |51.2 |62.9 |50.8 |62.0 |49.8 |61.5 |48.5 |61.1 |47.3
|------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Totals |555.7 |435.2 |557.0 |427.9 |554.1 |419.9 |550.3 |413.3 |548.0 |401.5 |537.7 |391.9 |526.0 |386.3 |519.0 |377.8
Training Agency
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people are employed in his Department's Training Agency ; and if he will give a breakdown of their main responsibilities.
Mr. Lee : On 1 June 1989, the latest date for which figures are available, the numbers of permanent staff employed in the Department's Training Agency were 11,893. Of these, 9,501 (including 2,623 Skills Training Agency staff) were employed in field offices on delivery and
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administration of the various programmes for which the Department is responsible. The remaining 2,392 were employed in head office ; of these, 984.5 were employed in central services, 1,266.5 in policy and programmes division and the training standards advisory service and 141 in the Skills Training Agency head office.Column 73
Employment Training
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many referrals there have been on a monthly basis from the employment service to employment training agents (a) nationally, and (b) by training area since September 1988.
Mr. Cope : Information on the level of employment service (ES) referrals to training agents on a national basis is given in table 1. Information on levels of referrals on a Training Agency area office basis is not available.
Referrals to employment training training agents Month |Total referrals ------------------------------------------------- 6 September 1988 |96,525 October 1988 |82,866 November 1988 |80,407 December 1988<1> |68,306 January 1989 |91,606 February 1989 |89,863 March 1989<1> |95,765 April 1989 |82,323 May 1989 |74,284 <1> Five week month.
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many training managers, by training agency area, were receiving either (i) the standard, (ii) special, (iii) high level, (iv) extended introduction or further assessment supplementary grants for trainees on a monthly basis since September 1988.
Mr. Nicholls : This information is not available without disproportionate cost. Supplementary grants are a matter of negotiation between the Training Agency area office and the individual training manager.
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement as to the progress of trainees from their initial referral to the ET training agent and a placement with a training manager.
Mr. Nicholls : The latest evidence we have on the referral of trainees into employment training shows that 51 per cent. of initial referrals attend the training agent and 79 per cent. of these are placed with a training manager.
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will place in the Library a list of local authorities that have refused to co-operate with employment training.
Mr. Nicholls : I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Barnsley, West and Penistone (Mr. McKay) on 20 June 1989 at column 137 .
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the total budget spent on advertising employment training ; and if he will provide a breakdown as to the nature of this spending.
Mr. Nicholls : The total spent on advertising employment training in the last financial year, 1988-89 was £9,654,954 and this financial year 1989-90 for the current campaign £4,375,750. This is broken down as follows :
|£
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Television |11,366,822
Press |1,423,132
Posters |1,240,750
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Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment when his Department will have completed the examination of ET training managers for approved status ; and how many staff within the Training Agency are working on this exercise.
Mr. Nicholls : It is planned to complete the examination of employment training managers by 5 September 1990. The number of Training Agency staff dedicated to this purpose varies from area office to area office depending on local demand.
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give (a) the number of employment training places available in 1989- 90, (b) the number of people in ET on the latest date for which information is available and (c) an estimate of the planned ET places in 1990-91 and 1991-92.
Mr. Nicholls : In May 1989 there were 255,000 available places on employment training. On 23 June, the latest date for which information is available, there were 192,000 people on the programme. Operational plans for 1990-91 and 1991-92 are not yet available.
Sullom Voe (Explosion)
Mr. Wallace : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the explosion at the Sullom Voe oil terminal on Thursday 22 June.
Mr. Nicholls : On 22 June 1989, the Health and Safety Executive was informed that due to the failure of a length of weld on a steel pipe drain at the Sullom Voe oil terminal, oily water was released causing an eruption of water and gravel. There were no injuries.
Labour Statistics
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give (a) the total numbers of long-term unemployed and (b) the long- term unemployed as a percentage of the total unemployed in June of each year from 1979 to 1989, inclusive.
Mr. Lee : Unemployment is analysed by duration quarterly. Direct comparisons of unemployment by duration since 1979 are not possible because of the changes from a count of registrants at jobcentres to a count based on unemployed claimants in 1983 and other changes in coverage of the count. Following is the available information, which is also in the Library. The table shows the number of unemployed in the United Kingdom who had been unemployed over 12 months and these as a percentage of the total for each April from 1979 to 1989.
Long-term Unemployment in the United Kingdom<1> April 1979-1989 April |Unemployed over 12 months|Percentage of total -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1979 |366,711 |27.4 1980 |354,101 |23.3 1981 |515,913 |20.4 1982 |994,395 |33.1 1983 |1,143,436 |36.1 1984 |1,218,162 |39.2 1985 |1,334,181 |40.8 1986 |1,356,521 |40.8 1987 |1,295,146 |41.7 1988 |1,029,206 |40.6 1989 |744,120 |39.5 <1> Figures for 1979-82 are for unemployed registrants at Jobcentres; those for 1983-89 relate to claimants unemployed.
Minimun Trainee Allowance
Mr. Nellist : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if, pursuant to his reply to hon. Member for Coventry, South-East, of Monday 19 June, Official Report, columns 10-11, he will list those employers known to his Department who supplement the minimum trainee allowance ; what percentage of YTS trainees are so covered ; what is the average supplement paid ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Cope : There is no list of employers who supplement the minimum trainee allowance. Twenty-four per cent. of trainees had employed status in May 1989, and were paid a wage by their employer. Survey evidence suggests that in addition about 14 per cent. of non-employed trainees receive an average supplement of £7 a week from their work experience provider on top of their trainee allowance. Payments above the minimum level are at the discretion of the employer, and reflect the value to the company of acquiring skilled workers.
European Tourism Year
Mr. Fearn : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what measures are being taken to help handicapped, disabled and disadvantaged tourists coming to Britain in European Tourism Year 1990.
Mr. Lee [holding answer 30 June 1989] : Specific initiatives to mark European Tourism Year are in the planning stage. Measures to help handicapped, disabled and disadvantaged tourists are being considered by the British tourist authority which is responsible for planning and co- ordinating the United Kingdom campaign.
Remploy
Mr. McAvoy : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make available the surveyor's report on Remploy's Rutherglen factory which resulted in the recommendation to close it down.
Mr. Lee [holding answer 29 June 1989] : The board of Remploy is responsible for making decisions relating to the day-to-day business of the company. The information requested is commercial and confidential to the board.
Health and Safety
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the level of fines imposed on each of the largest 100 companies for health and safety offences in the last five years ; what was the nature of the accident and the date in each case ; and how many persons were killed or seriously injured or suffered minor injuries on each occasion.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 29 June 1989] : The information requested could be supplied only at disproportionate cost.
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Mr. Patchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list for each year since 1974 (a) the number of prosecutions of (i) managers, (ii) supervisors and (iii) company directors and (b) the fines under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 29 June 1989] : Available data do not differentiate between offences committed by managers, supervisors and company directors. The tables list the convictions obtained under section 36 and section 37 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. Section 36 provides for the prosecution of a person whose act, or inaction, has led another individual to commit an offence under the Act. Section 37 provides for the prosecution of a director, manager, secretary or similar officer of a body corporate for offence committed by that body corporate. Information is not available for years before 1981.
Prosecutions under section 37 since 1981
Year<1> |Convictions<3> |Average penalty per
|conviction
|(£)
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1981 |7 |179
1982 |11 |293
1983 |6 |221
1984 |6 |208
1985 |11 |218
1986<2> |1 |300
1986-87 |5 |400
1987-88 |4 |188
<1>1981 to 1985-calendar year.
1986-87 onwards-year commencing 1 April.
<2>January to March.
<3>Data covers convictions obtained by the Factory and Agriculture
Inspectorates (the vast majority of cases).
Prosecutions under section 37 since 1981
Year<1> |Convictions<3> |Average penalty per
|conviction
|(£)
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1981 |7 |179
1982 |11 |293
1983 |6 |221
1984 |6 |208
1985 |11 |218
1986<2> |1 |300
1986-87 |5 |400
1987-88 |4 |188
<1>1981 to 1985-calendar year.
1986-87 onwards-year commencing 1 April.
<2>January to March.
<3>Data covers convictions obtained by the Factory and Agriculture
Inspectorates (the vast majority of cases).
Mr. Patchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list, for each year since 1974, the number of prosecutions of employees, and the outcome, under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 29 June 1989] : The table lists for each year since 1981, the number of convictions and average fines under section 7 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, which imposes a duty on every employee while at work to take reasonable care for the health and safety of himself and of other persons who may be affected by his acts or omissions. Information is not available for years before 1981.
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Convictions under section 7 of the HSW Act
<1>Year |<2>Convictions |Average penalty for
|conviction
|(£)
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1981 |19 |81
1982 |21 |112
1983 |29 |104
1984 |23 |118
1985 |30 |209
Jan-March 1986 |7 |64
1986-87 |21 |132
1987-88 |27 |183
<1> 1981-85-calendar years.
1986-87 onwards-year commencing 1 April.
<2> Data covers convictions obtained by the Factory and Agriculture
Inspectorates (the vast majority of cases).
Factory Inspectors
Mr. Patchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list, for each year since 1974, the number and proportion of female factory inspectors of the total employed.
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Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 29 June 1989] : Since 1 April 1976 the number of female factory inspectors employed by the Health and Safety Executive, the total number of factory inspectors employed, and the number of female inspectors expressed as a percentage of the total are as follows. Figures for earlier years are not available.
|Female inspectors |Total inspectors |Females as percentage of
|total
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1 April
1976 |61.5 |624.0 |9.86
1977 |65.0 |676.5 |9.61
1978 |75.0 |695.5 |10.78
1979 |95.0 |742.0 |12.80
1980 |105.0 |759.0 |13.83
1981 |98.5 |735.0 |13.40
1982 |81.5 |678.0 |12.02
1983 |74.5 |654.0 |11.39
1984 |71.0 |627.0 |11.32
1985 |76.0 |652.0 |11.66
1986 |74.0 |623.0 |11.88
1987 |87.0 |621.5 |14.00
1988 |84.5 |592.5 |14.26
1989 |92.0 |604.0 |15.23
1 June
1989 |96.0 |621.5 |15.44
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