| Previous Section | Home Page |
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 13 November 1989] : Records are kept on the basis for the standard financial year for accounting for Government expenditure, which runs from 1 April to 31 March. The Department of Employment Training Agency (ex-MSC, ex-Training Commission) spent the following on training schemes including special employment measures for the number of participants shown :
|£ million |Participants
----------------------------------------------------
1979-80 |524.3 |316,000
1988-89 |2,764.3 |1,229,000
Expenditure figures shown are at cash prices. Figures for 1979-80 are taken from the appropriation accounts, and for 1988-89 are provisional and unaudited.
Number of "participants" is the number of people who entered training during the year. This includes a number of people who may have started for a second or subsequent time.
The figures include the following programmes :
Training for the Needs of Industry
Training for the Needs of Individuals
Improving Training Effectiveness and Efficiency
Training Opportunities Scheme
Skillcentre Training
Community Programme
Occupational Training
Adult Training
Industrial Training Organisations
Technical and Vocational Education Initiative
Non Advanced Further Education
Youth Training Scheme
Employment Training
Scientific and Technical Equipment in Schools (STEPS)
Special employment measures included in 1979-80
Community Enterprise Programme
Column 149
Youth Opportunities ProgrammeCommunity Industry
Job Creation Programme
and all related administration costs net of receipts.
YTS
Mr. Paice : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many YTS places were available for employed status trainees in July 1987, 1988 and 1989 ; and how many of those places were filled by September of each year.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 13 November 1989] : YTS places are not allocated according to employment status. The total numbers of young people in training on YTS at the end of September 1987, 1988 and 1989 are given below together with the percentage with employed status.
Date |Total in training |Employed status |Percentage of total ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- End September 1989 |411,600 |107,000 |26 End September 1988 |435,600 |75,000 |17 End September 1987 |428,000 |47,000 |11
Unemployment
Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the level of unemployment among construction industry workers in England and Wales at the latest date ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Nicholls : There is no analysis of the monthly unemployment count by occupation or industry. However, the labour force survey provides estimates of the previous industry category of unemployed people. The table shows the estimates of unemployed persons whose previous job was in the construction industry (as defined by ILO definitions), as estimated by the latest survey of 1988.
Unemployed persons (ILO definitions) whose previous job was in the construction industry 1988 Labour Force Survey |Number of unemployed --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- England |128,000 Wales |12,000 Merseyside Metropolitan County |10,000
Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many were unemployed in the Liverpool travel-to-work area at the latest date ; and what was the figure five years ago.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 13 November 1989] : The information is available in the Library. In September 1989 the number of unemployed claimants in the Liverpool
Column 150
travel-to-work area was 66,636, compared with 106,825 in September 1984, a fall of 40,189 or 37.6 per cent. over the past five years. The comparison is slightly affected by the change in compilation of the count in March 1986 to reduce over-recording and by the change in September 1988 due to the changes in benefit regulations affecting young people under 18 years of age.Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the latest figure for unemployment in (a) Merseyside and (b) Liverpool.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 13 November 1989] : The information is available in the Library. In September 1989, the latest available date, the number of unemployed claimants was 87,293 in the county of Merseyside and 66,636 in the Liverpool travel-to-work area.
Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of unemployed in Liverpool under 21 years at the latest date ; and what were the figures five years ago.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 13 November 1989] : The information requested is not available. In July 1989, the latest available date, the number of unemployed claimants aged 18 to 24 in the Liverpool travel-to-work area was 22,086, compared with 37,617 in July 1984, a fall of 15,531 or 41.3 per cent. The comparison is slightly affected by the change in compilation of the count in March 1986 to reduce over-recording and by the change in September 1988 due to the changes in benefit regulations affecting young people under 18 years of age.
Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the unemployed figure among workers in the Liverpool construction industry at the latest available date.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 13 November 1989] : There is no analysis of the monthly unemployment count by occupation or industry. However, the labour force survey provides estimates of the previous industry category of unemployed people. The table shows the estimates of unemployed persons whose previous job was in the construction industry (as defined by ILO definitions), as estimated by the latest survey of 1988.
Unemployed persons (ILO definitions) whose previous job was in the
construction industry
(1988 labour force survey)
|Number of unemployed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
England |128,000
Wales |12,000
Merseyside Metropolitan County |10,000
Column 151
HOUSE OF COMMONS
Bills
Mr. Amess : To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will publish in the Official Report a list of (a) Government Bills and (b) private Members' Bills where the Committee stage was taken on the Floor of the House in each Session since 1970.
Sir Geoffrey Howe : The list, excluding Consolidated Fund Bills and Finance Bills, is as follows :
(Bills are listed in order of committal ; Government Bills are asterisked)
1970-71
*National Insurance (Old Persons and Widows Pensions and Attendance Allowance)
*International Monetary Fund
*Education Handicapped Children
*Fiji Independence
*Harbours (Amendment)
*Income and Corporation Taxes
*Family Incomes Supplements
*Town and County Planning Regulations (London) (Indemnity) *Expiring Laws (Continuance)
*Air Corporations
*Industrial Relations
*Atomic Energy Authority
*Guardianship of Minors
Administration of Estates
*Mr. Speaker King's Retirement
*Vehicles Excise
*Hydrocarbon Oil (Customs and Excise)
*Coinage
*Attachment of Earnings
*National Savings Bank
*Rent (Scotland)
Dangerous Litter
Betting, Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment)
*Medicines
*Housing
*Hijacking
*Diplomatic and Other Privileges
*Statute Law (Repeals)
1971-72
* National Insurance Regulations (Validation)
* Sierra Leone Republic
* Island of Rockall
* Airports Authority
* Civil List
* Ministerial and other Salaries
* Electricity
* Local Employment
* Summer Time
* Transport (Grants)
* European Communities
* Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement)
* Northern Ireland
Trade Descriptions
Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries
Carriage by Railway
Sunday Cinema
* Deposit of Poisonous Waste
* Road Traffic
* Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions)
* Betting and Gaming Duties
National Insurance (Amendment)
Sunday Theatre (No. 2)
Civil Evidence
Defective Premises
Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland)
* Parliamentary and other Pensions
* Sri Lanka Republic
* Town and Country Planning (Scotland)
* Contracts of Employment
* Land Charges
* National Debt
| Next Section
| Home Page |