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Hallmarking
Mr. Batiste : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he intends to defend the action brought by J. Kohle GMBH & Co. KG against him, the British Hallmarking Council, and the Goldsmiths Company, challenging the basis of United Kingdom hallmarking of precious metals.
Mr. Sainsbury : My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry is considering the legal position. As my hon. Friend knows, the Government have made clear their view that the compulsory marking of precious metals is essential to protect the interests of the consumer and honest trader. The Government believe that this is best achieved through the United Kingdom hallmarking system.
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Coppernob Ltd.
Mr. Hind : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will set up an inquiry under the Companies Act 1985 into the activities of Coppernob Ltd. ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood : I shall be replying soon to the hon. Member's letter of 14 May about the company.
United Kingdom Production
Dr. Dafydd Elis Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will publish figures showing the percentage of total United Kingdom production of (a) coal, (b) steel and (c) tinplate which has been produced in Wales.
Mr. Sainsbury : The information for 1990 is as follows :
Percentage of total United Kingdom production produced in Wales Commodity |Per cent. ----------------------------------- Coal<1> |6.5 Crude steel<2> |31.2 Tinplate<2> |100.0 Sources: <1> Department of Energy: figures relate to all deep-mined and opencast coal, financial year 1990-91. <2> Iron and Steel Statistics Bureau.
Salesmen (Representations)
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received concerning the effectiveness of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 in protecting limited companies from rental misrepresentations by salesmen leasing or selling fax machines and photocopiers.
Mr. Redwood : Limited companies that lease equipment or buy equipment under a credit agreement are not covered by the Consumer Credit Act 1974.
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will bring forward proposals to amend the Consumer Credit Act 1974 to ensure that leasing companies are made fully responsible for the representations made by salesmen acting on their behalf who are not employed by the leasing company.
Mr. Redwood : Consideration is being given to proposals that the rights of lessees should be extended in the circumstances provided.
Environmental Management
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many applications have been received to date for support under (a) the environmental management options scheme, (b) the environmental technology innovation scheme and (c) the Euro-environ programme ; and if he will indicate the sectors of industry from which applications have been received to date.
Mr. Lilley : I am pleased to say that, as at 1 May 1991 my Department has received 229 applications under the environmental management options scheme : 59 involving United Kingdom companies under the Euro- environ scheme and 170 under the environmental technology
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innovation scheme which is a joint DTI/DOE scheme. Applications have been received from over 20 different product sectors with some covering more than one sector, such as soil remediation, waste and water treatment, chemicals and domestic waste.Petroleum Coke
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to the answers to the hon. Member for Easington (Mr. Cummings) of 22 January, Official Report, column 118, what progress his Department has made in evaluating the hazards of petroleum coke used in domestic appliances and in discussing with the suppliers the instructions for use of this fuel in domestic appliances.
Mr. Lilley : My Department has found some evidence of problems when petroleum coke has been used in closed appliances or has not been blended before use. There is little evidence of problems experienced by consumers when the fuel is pre-blended and used only in open-grate fires. Such precautions form the basis of our recommendations to suppliers to provide instructions for consumers. The suppliers have undertaken to provide clear instructions on the safe use of this fuel.
Director General of Telecommunications (Report)
Mr. Riddick : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he has yet received a report by the Director General of Telecommunications for the year 1990, as required under section 55 of the Telecommunications Act 1984.
Mr. Lilley : Yes. The seventh report by the Director General of Telecommunications is being published today. It covers the period 1 January to 31 December 1990. Copies of the report have been laid before each House of Parliament.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Mr. Bowis : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he plans to strengthen export controls aimed at preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Mr. Sainsbury : The Government are committed to intensifying efforts to prevent proliferation in view of the heightened international concern. In the light of this, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has decided to extend controls to the remaining 13 precursors of concern identified by the Australia Group, in common with other member countries, in order to ensure the effectiveness of multilateral export controls. It has also been decided to extend the general end-use control which was introduced in December last year in the light of concerns relating to chemical and biological weapons, to cover materials and equipment of concern for nuclear weapons and missile purposes.
Exporters (Advice Services)
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any proposals for the improvement of information and advice services to United Kingdom exporters ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Sainsbury [holding answer 22 May 1991] : The Department of Trade and Industry and the Foreign and
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Commonwealth Office overseas trade services provide a wide range of information and advice to United Kingdom exporters. We have made substantial improvements in our services over the past two years and our regular quality monitoring system reports high levels of satisfaction among our business customers.We keep our services constantly under review. The joint directorate, formed on 2 April this year by merging the export service management units of the DTI and the FCO, has as its priority task to ensure that our export services operate well throughout the world. The fact that some 90 per cent. of our customers say that they will use our services again demonstrates their value and quality.
Mr. Mohinder Singh Bedi
Mr. Madden : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what applications have been (i) granted and (ii) refused since 1984 for financial assistance available to small businesses from (a) Mr. Mohinder Paul Singh Bedi, (b) West Middlesex Immigration Services Ltd., (c) Swordshine Ltd. and (d) Hammersmith Securities Ltd. ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood [holding answer 22 May 1991] : This Department does not reveal details of applications for
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support. These are confidential between the company and the Department. There is no trace of any financial assistance to these companies.EMPLOYMENT
Employment Training
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary off 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 ET trainees who three weeks after leaving were (a) in a full-time job with their work experience provider, (b) in a full-time job with another employer, (c) in a part-time job, (d) in full-time education or on a training course, (e) employed in their own business, (f) in job clubs, (g) in voluntary work, (h) unemployed and claiming benefit and (i) unemployed and not claiming benefit.
Mr. Jackson : The destinations of trainees leaving employment training between December 1989 and November 1990, three months after leaving, are shown in the following table. Percentages only are provided, because not all trainees respond to the follow-up survey.
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Employment training
Destination of trainees 3 months after leaving in period December 1989 to
November 1990
Per cent.
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Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list, for each region and for Great Britain as a whole, the number and proportion of employment training leavers who obtained a vocational qualification.
Mr. Jackson : The following table gives the percentage of trainees leaving employment training between October 1989 and September 1990, the latest date for which information is available, who obtained a qualification or credit or who were awaiting results. Numbers of trainees achieving qualifications or credits towards qualifications are not available, because not all trainees respond to the follow-up survey.
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Employment training
Proportion gaining qualifications or credits
All leavers between October 1989 to September 1990
Region |Obtained |Awaiting results
|qualification or
|credit
|Percentage |Percentage
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South East |28 |4
London |20 |4
South West |27 |5
West Midlands |23 |5
East Midlands and Anglia |24 |5
Yorkshire and Humberside |23 |4
North West |22 |4
Northern |28 |5
Wales |26 |4
Scotland |27 |5
Great Britain<1> |25 |4
Source: Employment Training Follow up Survey.
<1> Includes some trainees with nationally contracted training
providers.
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Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give, for each region and for Great Britain as a whole for the latest available date, the amounts paid to (a) ET providers and (b) YT providers in the form of ex-gratia payments to compensate them for hardship caused by recontracting ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Jackson : In the 1990-91 financial year, my Department operated a special ex-gratia compensation scheme for ET providers. Where a contract with a training provider was foreclosed or modified substantially, reducing contracted volumes or recruitment earlier than the last effective day of the contract, my Department undertook to make an ex-gratia payment. There was no similar arrangement for youth training.
The table shows the provisional outturn expenditure to end March 1991 under the special employment training ex-gratia payments arrangements.
Region |Amount
|£
----------------------------------------------
South East |97,000
London |74,000
South West |166,000
West Midlands |190,000
East Midlands and Eastern |Nil
Yorkshire and Humberside |19,000
North West |102,000
Northern |262,000
Wales |56,000
Scotland |47,000
National providers |302,000
|-------
Total |1,315,000
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the number of employment training trainees who were being paid their training allowance and/or training premium by the Employment Service in each month since April ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Jackson : The information requested is provided in the following table. I am glad that employment training continues to help so many unemployed people in their efforts to find employment.
Employment training trainees
receiving employment
training
allowances-May 1990 to April
1991
|Number
-----------------------------
May 1990 |202,795
June |194,459
July |187,196
August |180,916
September |179,955
October |185,988
November |190,041
December |194,045
January 1991 |189,109
February |198,413
March |192,279
April |167,427
Source: Employment Service
records.
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Employment Service
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what progress the Employment Service has made in meeting its targets outlined in the 1990-91 agency agreement ; and if he will show for the latest possible date (a) total unemployed job placings and variance from target, (b) long- term unemployed job placings and variance from target, (c) people with disabilities job placings and variance from target, (d) inner-city job placings and variance from target, (e) number of claims not pursued following initial contact and variance from profiled annual reference level, (f) number of claimants moved from unemployment benefit to another benefit and variance from annual reference level and (g) number of people who withdrew their claim to benefit after contact with fraud investigators and variance from annual reference level.
Mr. Jackson : I am informed by the chief executive of the Employment Service that for the period April 1990 to March 1991, the agency's performance against target was as follows :
|Performance |Variance
|Achieved |from target/
|1990-91 |reference level
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|Per cent.
Total value of correct payments of |95.7 per cent. |<1>+0.7
unemployment benefit (target
of 95 per cent.)
Percentage of new claims input to |86.8 per cent. |-4.2
computer within six days of a
claim being made (target 91
per cent.)
Claims not pursued following |448,000 |+12
initial contact
Claimants moved to an |78,400 |-2
appropriate benefit other than
unemployment benefit
Number of people who withdrew |64,700 |-14
their claim after having contact
with fraud investigators
Unemployed job placings |1,396,900 |-15
Long-term unemployed job |208,100 |-24
placings
People with disabilities job |34,200 |-20
placings
Inner city job placings |471,000 |-9
<1>The Employment Service 1990-91 Annual Performance
Agreement represents this target as the total value of incorrect
payments. The figure used here is an inversion of this.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the establishment of the Employment Service executive agency ; what is the annual salary for each employee ; and what savings his Department will make in connection with this agency.
Mr. Jackson : The employees of the Employment Service are civil servants and as such receive salaries appropriate to their particular grade. The table shows the numbers employed in each grade and the minimum and maximum points of each salary scale.
A total of £13.6 million, or 2.3 per cent., of running costs savings were achieved in the first year of operation as an agency--1990-91.
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Grade |Number in|Minimum |Maximum
|grade |of salary|of salary
|scale |scale
|(£ ) |(£ )
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Grade 3 |2.0 |47,090 |54,720
Grade 4 |7.0 |40,116 |43,307
Grade 5 |16.0 |32,551 |36,997
Grade 6 |24.0 |24,997 |32,551
Grade 7 |157.6 |21,905 |26,121
Senior Executive Officer (SEO) |364.4 |15,156 |19,348
Higher Executive Officer (HEO) |2,013.7 |12,367 |15,786
HEO (D) |1.3 |14,141 |17,789
Executive Officer (EO) |9,791.7 |7,286 |12,621
Management Trainee |16.0 |8,931 |13,145
Administrative Officer |21,492.0 |4,561 |9,278
Administrative Assistant |3,130.6 |4,121 |7,574
Senior Personal Secretary |7.0 |10,623 |12,162
Personal Secretary |41.1 |7,834 |9,598
Typing Manager |8.9 |10,988 |12,580
Typist |256.4 |5,977 |7,834
Support Grade Band 1 |134.2 |8,345 |8,862
Support Grade Band 2 |194.9 |4,438 |7,942
Graphics-Technical Grade |6.0 |9,348 |12,704
Senior Instructional Officer |30.0 |16,441 |17,125
Higher Instructional Officer |57.0 |14,552 |15,468
Instructional Officer 1 |216.0 |13,145 |13,691
Senior Economic Assistant |3.0 |14,141 |17,789
Economic Assistant |1.0 |11,117 |13,100
Senior Information Officer |1.0 |15,553 |20,467
Accountant (Grade 7) |1.0 |23,407 |26,121
Accountant (SEO) |2.0 |17,125 |21,862
Accountant (EO) |1.0 |9,302 |14,851
Auditor (SEO) |8.0 |15,786 |20,152
Auditor (HEO) |19.0 |12,880 |16,441
Senior Assistant Statistician |1.0 |14,141 |17,789
Assistant Statistician |2.0 |11,117 |13,100
Senior Research Officer (Social Science) |5.2 |13,821 |18,925
Research Officer (Social Science) |4.1 |9,348 |13,821
Senior Psychologist |26.0 |16,822 |20,467
Higher Psychologist |4.0 |13,262 |16,176
Psychologist |62.0 |11,026 |12,143
Physiotherapist |3.5 |13,465 |15,385
Chief Nursing Consultant |1.0 |31,158 |33,939
Nursing Consultant |4.0 |25,004 |26,835
Senior Social Worker |1.0 |16,822 |21,287
Higher Social Worker |3.0 |13,262 |16,822
Social Worker |27.5 |9,348 |14,381
Hostel Manager |2.0 |13,466 |17,831
Hostel Steward |2.0 |8,236 |9,725
Hostel Orderly |3.5 |5,599 |5,891
Higher Professional and Technical Officer |1.0 |12,704 |16,822
Support Manager Grade 3 |1.0 |9,438 |11,222
Industrials |25.0 |6,755 |9,509
|-------
Total |38,182.6
Note: People employed in London in many of these grades may progress beyond the
maximum of the National scales shown above. They also
receive an additional London Weighting allowance.
Virtually all our employees are covered by nationally negotiated Performance Pay
Agreements which, subject to set criteria, allow
additional pay to be earned.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many of the total staff of the Employment Service executive agency are on secondment from Government Departments and, in particular, from his Department.
Mr. Jackson : Questions on operational matters in the Employment Service executive agency are the respon-sibility of Mike Fogden, the agency's chief executive, to whom I have referred this question for reply.
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Disabled Employees
Mr. William Powell : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report the take-up figures of disabled persons into employment under the quota scheme operated by public sector employers for each of the years 1988, 1989 and 1990.
Mr. Jackson : As with all questions on Employment Service operational matters, I have referred this question to Mike Fodgen, the executive agency's chief executive, for reply. A copy of that response will be placed in the Library.
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total number of permits issued
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exempting employers from the quota obligations under the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944 for each of the past five years.Mr. Jackson : Questions on operational matters in the Employment Service executive agency are the respon-sibility of Mike Fogden, the agency's chief executive, to whom I have referred this question for reply.
Employment Rehabilitation Centres
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total amount spent on employment rehabilitation centres for each of the past five years, in cash and constant prices.
Mr. Jackson : Questions on operational matters in the Employment Service executive agency are the respon-sibility of Mike Fogden, the agency's chief executive, to whom I have referred this question for reply.
Training and Enterprise Councils
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the allocated budget of each of the operational TECs for 1991-92, showing the amounts contracted for (a) youth training, (b) employment training and (c) the enterprise allowance scheme.
Mr. Jackson : Budgets for 1991-92 have been allocated by funding block rather than individual scheme. The allocated budgets for each of the 76 operational TECs for funding blocks 1 to 3 are set out in the table.
|Funding |Funding |Funding
|block 1 |block 2 |block 3
|£ million|£ million|£ million
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South East
Essex |14.999 |5.835 |3.320
Hampshire |19.665 |4.800 |2.690
Heart of England |5.718 |1.483 |1.200
Hertfordshire |10.601 |2.877 |2.385
Isle of Wight |1.941 |0.577 |0.515
Kent |19.015 |5.338 |3.180
Milton Keynes and North
Buckinghamshire |3.358 |1.012 |0.705
Surrey |6.715 |1.746 |1.680
Sussex |13.864 |4.636 |3.380
Thames Valley Enterprise |11.183 |2.314 |1.870
London
AZTEC |3.390 |4.360 |1.430
LETEC |10.050 |17.750 |2.700
SOLOTEC |6.870 |7.170 |1.940
STTEC<1> |5.070 |15.460 |3.510
South West
Avon |14.918 |12.030 |3.491
Devon and Cornwall |29.581 |20.254 |6.070
Dorset |8.148 |3.921 |3.921
Gloucester |7.395 |3.568 |1.600
Somerset |7.350 |2.754 |1.530
Wiltshire |7.385 |2.936 |1.540
West Midlands
Birmingham |20.713 |28.101 |4.107
Central England |5.861 |4.936 |1.382
Coventry |13.939 |10.918 |2.588
Dudley |5.904 |6.169 |1.041
Hereford and Worcester |5.347 |4.130 |1.177
Sandwell |5.650 |6.261 |1.041
Shropshire |7.568 |5.912 |1.557
Staffordshire |21.250 |12.381 |2.898
Walsall |4.530 |6.268 |0.887
Wolverhampton |6.143 |6.819 |1.041
E. Midlands and Anglia
Leicester |13.715 |4.184 |2.695
Northants |5.460 |2.714 |1.415
Lincolnshire |10.867 |3.329 |1.808
Greater Nottingham |10.719 |4.549 |1.965
North Nottinghamshire |7.900 |5.516 |1.430
South Derby |8.889 |3.539 |1.799
North Derby |6.165 |2.238 |1.114
Norfolk/Waverney |11.446 |4.493 |2.213
Suffolk |8.777 |1.582 |1.294
Bedfordshire |5.920 |1.767 |0.895
GP TEC |4.005 |1.533 |0.568
CAMBSTEC |3.010 |0.476 |0.749
Yorkshire and Humberside
Leeds |10.097 |20.492 |2.273
North Yorshire |8.091 |7.201 |2.047
Bradford |9.558 |9.315 |1.673
Calderdale and Kirklees |9.362 |10.460 |2.056
Wakefield |6.281 |6.077 |1.054
Barnsley and Doncaster |12.783 |13.867 |2.165
Sheffield |10.148 |14.455 |2.492
Rotherham |5.852 |6.266 |0.984
North West
Bolton/Bury |6.200 |4.802 |1.555
CEWTEC |9.778 |13.633 |2.443
Cumbria |10.100 |6.863 |1.596
ELTEC |8.650 |6.000 |1.759
LAWTEC |11.935 |10.838 |2.764
Manchester |16.070 |19.007 |4.506
Merseyside<2> |25.618 |30.925 |4.480
METROTEC |4.901 |4.346 |1.043
NORMID<2> |7.950 |6.117 |1.357
Oldham |4.306 |3.218 |0.795
QUALITEC |4.976 |4.163 |0.608
Rochdale |2.700 |3.961 |0.775
South and East Cheshire |5.510 |2.422 |1.088
Stockport HP |4.670 |3.668 |1.528
Northern
Teesside |16.012 |11.391 |2.557
Tyneside |22.027 |13.350 |3.750
Wearside |10.219 |6.998 |1.385
Durham |16.782 |10.517 |2.662
Northumberland |9.325 |3.352 |1.486
Wales
Gwent |9.368 |5.232 |1.655
North East Wales |7.012 |3.333 |1.384
North West Wales |6.978 |3.120 |1.631
Mid Glamorgan |11.135 |5.727 |1.719
Powys |2.029 |1.101 |0.590
South Glamorgan |6.007 |4.380 |1.461
West Wales |15.455 |8.877 |3.490
<1>Becomes operational 27 May 1991.
<2>Becomes operational 24 June 1991.
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will take steps to require that each training and enterprise council includes representatives of small businesses ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Jackson [holding answer 22 May 1991] : The TEC prospectus stated that the private sector directors on training and enterprise councils should broadly reflect the mix of commerce and industry in their area and should include executives with first-hand experience of running small businesses as well as major employers. More generally, TECs are required to take account of the needs of small firms in their plans to bring about a dynamic and prosperous local economy.
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Disabled People (Special Schemes)
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many applications have been made, and how many grants have been awarded, for each of the past five years for (a) the personal reader service scheme, (b) the special aids to employment scheme, (c) the assistance with fares to work scheme and (d) the adaptations to premises and equipment scheme.
Mr. Jackson : Questions on operational matters in the Employment Service executive agency are the responsibility of Mike Fogden, the agency's chief executive, to whom I have referred this question for reply.
Employment Statistics (Doncaster)
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the percentage of total employment by industry and what was the percentage change in employment by industry, by year for the period 1979 to 1990 and 1991 to date, for the Doncaster area classified by: men, women, young persons and ethnic minorities.
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Mr. Jackson : Information for employees in employment according to industry by district and by travel-to-work area is available only from the censuses of employment for 1981, 1984, 1987 and 1989. This can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the House of Commons Library. Separate data for young persons and ethnic minorities are not available.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what estimate he has of the number of people employed in (a) coal mining and (b) manufacturing in the Doncaster travel-to-work area ; what percentage these are of the total employed ; and what the comparable figures were in 1979.
Mr. Jackson : Information for employees in employment by travel-to- work area is available only from the periodic censuses of employment. The earliest and most recent estimates are from censuses taken in 1981 and 1989 and are given in the table.
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Employees in employment in coal mining and manufacturing in the Doncaster
travel-to-work area
September 1981 September 1989
|Number |Proportion<1>|Number |Proportion<1>
|(000's) |(per cent.) |(000's) |(per cent.)
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Deep coal mines |16.4 |17.8 |6.0 |6.9
Manufacturing |25.3 |27.5 |19.9 |22.8
<1>Employees in Activity Heading 1113 (deep coal mines) and Divisions 2 to 4 (
manufacturing industries) of the Standard Industrial
Classification 1980, as a percentage of all employees in the travel-to-work area.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what were the levels of redundancies, by industry, in the Doncaster area by year for the period 1979 to 1990 and 1991 to date, classified by men, women, young persons and ethnic minorities.
Mr. Forth : Information on the number of redundancies confirmed as having occurred is given in the tables. Data
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are available for Doncaster only for the period 1983 to date. Data given for 1979-82 are for the Yorkshire and Humberside region. Information is not available to identify separately men, women, young persons and ethnic minorities. I refer the hon. Gentleman to an article on official statistics on redundancies that appeared in the September 1990 edition of Employment Gazette.Column 639
Confirmed redundancies in Yorkshire and Humberside region (1979-83) and Doncaster area (
1983)-SIC 1968
Yorkshire and Humberside region Doncaster
|1979 |1980 |1981 |1982 |1983 |1983
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1. Agriculture, Forest and Fish |0 |136 |26 |63 |103 |0
2. Mining and Quarrying |220 |191 |1,237 |1,477 |4,246 |632
3. Food, Drink and Tobacco |1,633 |2,310 |2,227 |2,691 |1,724 |207
4. Coal and Petrol Products |0 |126 |962 |106 |151 |0
5. Chemicals and Allied |173 |1,486 |2,588 |711 |714 |0
6. Metal Manufacture |1,736 |9,130 |14,405|6,796 |5,841 |62
7. Mechanical Engineering |2,805 |4,717 |6,660 |6,240 |5,299 |317
8. Instrument Engineering |27 |256 |358 |123 |111 |0
9. Electrical Engineering |173 |1,931 |2,058 |893 |799 |114
10. Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering |342 |120 |198 |85 |326 |17
11. Vehicles |36 |3,129 |4,018 |3,601 |1,988 |601
12. Metal Goods (N.E.S.) |700 |3,856 |5,316 |2,714 |2,971 |187
13. Textiles |3,114 |9,254 |4,348 |5,883 |2,484 |232
14. Leather and Fur etc. |773 |16 |180 |137 |63 |0
15. Clothing and Footwear |1,436 |2,904 |3,374 |2,780 |499 |0
16. Bricks, Pottery, etc. |896 |2,430 |1,515 |981 |1,924 |201
17. Timber, Furniture, etc. |405 |992 |1,251 |1,452 |644 |0
18. Paper, Printing, etc. |321 |407 |1,356 |595 |785 |185
19. Other Manufacturing Industries |269 |949 |745 |687 |603 |70
20. Construction |1,130 |2,967 |3,460 |759 |1,073 |37
21. Gas, Electricity, Water |0 |9 |50 |527 |427 |15
22. Transport and Communication |358 |831 |1,577 |1,030 |885 |119
23. Distributive Trades |1,018 |1,680 |2,583 |2,826 |2,111 |27
24. Insurance, Banking, etc. |41 |83 |248 |300 |98 |0
25. Professional and Scientific Services |0 |72 |215 |497 |446 |99
26. Miscellaneous Services |198 |512 |1,729 |1,586 |1,228 |11
27. Public Administration, Defence |34 |385 |418 |417 |264 |59
|--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |---
Total |17,838|50,879|63,102|45,957|37,807|3,192
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Confirmed redundancies in the Doncaster area 1984-90
SIC 1980
Industry |SIC |1984 |1985 |1986 |1987 |1988 |1989 |1990
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Agriculture |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Energy and water |1 |188 |5,181 |1,117 |1,008 |278 |271 |0
Extraction of minerals |2 |138 |191 |62 |10 |512 |25 |0
Metal goods |3 |36 |406 |335 |1,145 |262 |386 |69
Other manufacturers |4 |280 |124 |387 |195 |0 |77 |14
Construction |5 |9 |57 |166 |0 |14 |60 |10
Distributive trades |6 |56 |152 |138 |104 |53 |18 |0
Transport and
communications |7 |140 |0 |18 |18 |29 |0 |29
Insurance, banking etc. |8 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Other services |9 |0 |0 |25 |0 |22 |0 |52
|------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Total |847 |6,111 |2,248 |2,480 |1,170 |837 |174
Confirmed redundancies in the Doncaster area 1991
Industry |SIC |January |February|March<1>|April<1>
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Agriculture |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Energy and water |1 |0 |0 |0 |0
Extraction of minerals |2 |0 |298 |0 |0
Metal goods |3 |22 |18 |0 |0
Other manufacturers |4 |72 |0 |0 |0
Construction |5 |0 |0 |0 |0
Distributive trades |6 |0 |0 |22 |0
Transport and communications |7 |0 |0 |0 |0
Insurance, banking etc. |8 |0 |0 |0 |0
Other services |9 |0 |0 |29 |0
|------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Total |94 |316 |51 |0
<1> Provisional and subject to revision.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what information he has, by year, on the number of individuals covered by the redundant mineworkers payments scheme who have left the Doncaster travel-to-work area unemployment register since the commencement of the scheme.
Mr. Jackson : Questions on operational matters in the Employment Service executive agency are the responsibility of Mike Fogden, the agency's chief executive, to whom I have referred this question for reply.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number and percentages of (a) male unemployed and (b) female unemployed in the Doncaster area as at 1 April in each year from 1979 to 1991.
Mr. Jackson : The available information, for the Doncaster travel-to -work area, can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the House of Commons Library.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of persons employed by sex in each standard category of employment in the Doncaster area for 1 April in each year from 1979 to 1991.
Mr. Jackson : Information for employees in employment according to industry by district and by travel-to-work area is available only from the censuses of employment held in September of 1981, 1984, 1987 and 1989. This can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the House of Commons Library.
Wages Councils
Mr. Beith : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many workers in the northern region and in each county within the region are covered by the
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various wages councils ; how many have had their individual pay or conditions checked by the councils ; and in how many cases underpayments were discovered.Mr. Forth : There are no statistics of the total numbers of workers covered by wages councils in the northern region or in counties. The following table gives information about workers in each wages council industry in the northern division of the wages inspectorate whose pay was checked in 1990 and the numbers found to have been underpaid.
Wages council |Number of |Number of
|workers |workers found
|whose pay |to be
|was checked |underpaid
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Aerated waters |32 |0
Clothing |291 |14
General waste reclemation |126 |4
Hairdressing undertakings |584 |49
Retail (non-food) trades |2,078 |123
Retail food and allied trades |2,445 |404
Licensed non-residential
establishments |3,625 |280
Licensed residential establishments
and licensed restaurants |1,177 |113
Unlicensed place of refreshment |399 |49
All other councils |83 |5
|------- |-------
Totals |10,808 |1,040
Ionising Radiation
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the common dose limits and radiation protection standards applied to those who work with ionising radiation in (i) the United Kingdom and (ii) each of the other European Community countries.
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Mr. Forth : Common dose limits and radiation protection standards for work with ionising radiation apply throughout the European Community and are set out in European Community directive 80/836/Euratom (as amended by 84/467/Euratom). The United Kingdom legislation that implements the European Community directive is the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985 and the mirror Northern Ireland provisions, copies of which are held in the Library.A comprehensive picture of how member states have met their obligations under the directive is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Employment-related Agencies
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list for each employment-related agency (a) those that have published their business plans for 1991-92 and (b) those that have not yet published them.
Mr. Jackson : The only executive agency within my Department is the Employment Service ; its operational plan for 1991-92 was placed in the Library of the House on 9 May.
Careers Service
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of responses about the future of the careers service has supported its retention under local education authority control.
Mr. Jackson : I will write to the hon. Member.
Labour Statistics
Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a list showing the latest available figures for the rate of unemployment in each OECD member country.
Mr. Jackson : Following is a table which gives the latest available internationally comparable unemployment rates for the OECD countries.
Comparisons of unemployment between OECD countries
Standardised unemployment rates<2>
seasonally adjusted
|Percentage rate|Latest month
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Spain |15.8 |November
Ireland |15.1 |March
Canada |10.4 |March
Italy |9.8 |October
New Zealand |9.6 |February
France |9.2 |February
Australia |9.1 |March
United Kingdom |8.6 |March
Belgium |8.5 |March
Netherlands |7.5 |February
United States |6.8 |March
Finland |5.7 |February
Norway |5.0 |November
Germany (FR)<1> |4.5 |February
Portugal |4.5 |November
Sweden |2.3 |March
Japan |2.0 |February
OECD Total<2> |6.6 |February
Major 7<3> |6.1 |February
Source: OECD "Main Economic Indicators" and Press Releases.
<1> There are no reliable figures available as yet for a
unified
Germany. The rate quoted is for what was formerly West Germany.
<2> Only the countries listed are included in the total.
<3> United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, USA, Japan and
Canada.
Piper Alpha
Mrs. Golding : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what information he has on the number of victims of the Piper Alpha disaster who are still awaiting settlement of compensation claims against their employers.
Mr. Forth : Compensation payments are a matter between Occidental and the survivors or the families of victims.
Paint
Mr. Sillars : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what steps he is taking to promote water-based paint products in the construction industry as a replacement for solvent-based products.
Mr. Forth : The Health and Safety Executive has produced industry- specific guidance including two leaflets, "Health Hazards to Painters" and "Solvents and You", setting out the risks attached to work with solvents and outlining the control and preventive measures to be taken. Exposure to solvents can be minimised by the use of low-solvent or solvent-free materials. However, such products may contain other toxic substances and employers must therefore assess the relative health risk of alternative products available.
Service Industries (North-East)
Mr. Ronnie Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the variations in the rate of increase of the number of jobs created in the service industries in the regions of the north-east in the past two years.
Mr. Jackson : The latest estimates of employment for area within standard regions relate to the 1989 census of employment. More recent estimates of changes in the number of employees in service industries in the north standard region--Cumbria, Cleveland, Tyne and Wear, Durham and Northumberland--are as follows :
Employees in the service industries in the North Region
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Careers Services
Mr. Ian Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what representations he has received about his proposals to encourage local authorities and training
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and enterprise councils to work in partnership to oversee the operation of careers services ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. Jackson : Prior to the White Paper on "Education and Training for the 21st Century" (Cm 1536), I received a very wide response to my consultative document on the future of the careers service. Many of those responding supported LEAs and TECs working closely together. As announced in the White Paper we shall support LEAs and TECs which wish to work together, and we propose to legislate to open up options for the management of the careers service.
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