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Mr. Stewart : The information requested is set out in the table. Information on the number of patients likely to be treated in 1994 is not held centrally.
Number of patients treated at pain clinics in Edinburgh 1992 and
1993
|New patients
|1992<1> |1993<2>
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Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh |127 |162
Western General, Edinburgh |437 |434
<1> Year ending 31 September 1992.
<2> Year ending 31 September 1993.
Dental Decay
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table indicating for five-year-old children for (a) 1991 and (b) the most recent date for which information is available, the average number of teeth suffering from dental decay, analysed by region for Scotland.
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Mr. Stewart : The most recent information, collected through the Scottish Health Board's dental epidemiological programme, relates to the year 1991-92. The average number of decayed teeth per five-year-old child in each health board area for that year is as follows :
|Number
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Argyll and Clyde |2.11
Ayrshire and Arran |2.37
Borders |0.91
Dumfries and Galloway |1.79
Fife |1.90
Forth Valley |1.74
Grampian |1.77
Greater Glasgow |2.05
Highland |1.65
Lanarkshire |2.39
Lothian |1.78
Orkney |0.99
Shetland |1.02
Tayside |1.55
Western Isles |2.28
EC Supplies Directive
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what are the criteria laid down by the EC supplies directive for the selection of those invited to tender and the adjudication of the awards.
Mr. Lang : The EC supplies directive has been implemented in the United Kingdom by the Public Supplies Contracts Regulations 1991--Statutory Instrument 1991/2679. From 14 June 1994 the consolidated supplies directive 93/96/EEC will come into force. Both documents are available in the Library.
Scottish Enterprise
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will place copies in the Library of the documents produced by Scottish Enterprise on its strategic thinking for training.
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Mr. Stewart : It is for Scottish Enterprise to determine the distribution of any documents it produces on its strategic thinking for training.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what representations Scottish Enterprise has made to him about the quality or structure of Government training schemes.
Mr. Stewart : It is a statutory duty for Scottish Enterprise to monitor and satisfy itself on the quality of training on Government schemes which are delivered by the local enterprise companies. The structure of such schemes is laid down annually in the contract between Scottish Enterprise and the local enterprise companies. In respect of training this contract closely follows that between my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment and the training and enterprise councils. Revisions to the contract are the subject of frequent consultations between my officials and those of Scottish Enterprise.
Training
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what percentage of the long-term unemployed have been on Government training schemes in each of the last five years.
Mr. Stewart : This information is not available.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what were the allowances paid to 16 and 17-year-olds on youth training or its equivalent in each of the last 10 years in real and constant price terms.
Mr. Stewart : The information requested is set out in the table :
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Youth Training Scheme/Youth Training-Minimum allowance levels (£)
|1983-84 |1984-85 |1985-86 |1986-87 |1987-88 |1988-89 |1989-90 |1990-91 |1991-92 |<3>1992-93
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Minimum allowance
(YT/YTS)<1> |25.00 |26.25 |27.30 |27.30 |28.50 |29.50 |29.50 |29.50 |29.50 |29.50
At 1992-93 price level |41.70 |41.75 |41.10 |39.79 |39.40 |38.04 |35.68 |32.98 |30.82 |29.50
Minimum allowance
(YT/YTS)<2> |- |- |- |35.00 |35.00 |35.00 |35.00 |35.00 |35.00 |35.00
At 1992-93 price level |- |- |- |51.02 |48.39 |45.12 |42.34 |39.13 |36.57 |35.00
<1> Minimum level of allowance payable to first year trainees until 29 May 1990. Payable to 16 year old trainees thereafter.
<2> Minimum level of allowance payable to second year trainees until 29 May 1990. Payable to trainees aged 17 and above thereafter.
<3> 1992-93 price levels obtained by application of appropriate GDP deflator index.
Note: The Youth Training Scheme (YTS) was replaced by Youth Training (YT) on 29 May 1990.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the cost to the Government in real and constant price terms of each place for 16 and 17-year-olds on youth training in each of the past five years.
Mr. Stewart : The information requested is available only from April 1991 when Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise took over responsibility for the delivery of youth training in Scotland. The available information is shown below :
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|Cash |1993-94 Prices
|£ |£
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1991-92 |2,658 |2,850
1992-93 |2,824 |2,916
<1>1993-94 |2,633 |2,633
<1> estimated.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what consideration has been given to informing hon. Members of the unit cost of training places placed by LECs in their areas.
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Mr. Stewart : The cost of training places is a commercial contractual matter between the local enterprise companies and their training providers. I have no plans to collect this information centrally for the information of hon. Members.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what rights of appeal exist for a trainee against the quality of training offered by a local enterprise company.
Mr. Stewart : Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise are required to ensure that all local enterprise companies operate a complaints procedure for dealing with all complaints made to them, and to satisfy themselves from time to time that the complaints procedure is being operated properly by the local enterprise companies.
Specific details of these complaints procedures, including right of appeal for a trainee against the quality of training being offered, are a matter between the individual local enterprise company and Scottish Enterprise or Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what consideration has been given to informing hon. Members of which firms tendered for training contracts to LECs ; and at what prices.
Mr. Stewart : I have no plans for informing hon. Members which firms tendered for training contracts. This, and the price paid for training, is a commercial contractual matter between the local enterprise companies and their training providers.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what information is available about the cost, quality, range and outcomes of Government training schemes at local enterprise company, Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Office levels.
Mr. Stewart : The information available at local enterprise company and Scottish Enterprise level is an operational matter for these organisations and I will ask the chairman of Scottish Enterprise to write to the hon. Member.
The information held at Scottish Office level for youth and adult training is as follows :--
Cost |Youth training|Adult training
|(training for
|work)
|£ million |£ million
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1992-93 |100.019 |96.981
Outcomes
A wide range of management information is collected on youth and adult training programmes. The information is set out below : Youth training and training for work management
information--Monthly
Youth Training Total starts Starts in guarantee group first-time entrants leavers Training weeks delivered SVQ qualifications (or equivalent gained by : Word start
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Number start Foundation Level qualifications Level 1 : endorsed category B young people Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 or above At end of period, number of trainees in training Additional Requirements for Skillseekers During the period, the total number of credits issuedTraining for Work Total starts Starts in :-- a. Priority Group 1 unemployed for 12 months or more having been through an ES Jobplan Workshop b. Priority Group 2--people with disabilities c. unemployed 6 months or more but not in a. or b. d. others leavers Participant weeks delivered Training allowance weeks delivered For all participants, the SVQ qualifications (or equivalent) gained by : Word start Number start Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 or above Positive outcomes achieved shown separately by : i. employment ii. self-employment iii. further education or training At end of the period, number of trainees in training
Quarterly
At the end of periods 3, 6, 9, and 12 the number of :
Starts broken down by
Male/Female
Disability
Ethnic
white
ethnic minority groups prefer not to say
Endorsed
Urban Programme Area (UPA)
At the end of the period
Employed status in training
Endorsed in training (by category)
In-training aimed at SVQ or other accepted Qualification at level 1, 2, 3, 4 and Wordstart/Number start foundation level qualifications (shown separately)
Job outcomes for the trainees
Job outcomes for the disabled
Job outcomes for ethnic
white
ethnic minorities
prefer not to say
Additional Requirements for Skillseekers
The total number of young people confirmed as eligible to use their credit
At the end of periods 3, 6, 9, and 12 the number of :
Starts broken down by
Male/Female
Labour Market Returners Ethnics
white
ethnic minority groups
prefer not to say
Urban Programme Area
endorsed
disabled
others
At the end of the period
Employed status in training endorsed in training shown separately by Category L or N trainees in training aiming at SVC or other accepted qualifications at levels 1, 2, 3, and 4 and
wordstart/numberstart (shown separately)
Job outcome for all trainees
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Job outcomes for the disabledJob outcomes for ethnic
white
ethnic minorities
prefer not to say
Six monthly
At the end of the period the number of trainees in training shown by :
male
female
standard occupational classification (SOC) categories
Age 16
Age 17
Age 18 or over
At the end of the period the number of participants shown by : male
female
standard occupational classification (SOC) categories
In respect of quality, the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 lays upon Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise the duty, which may not be delegated, of keeping under continuous review the suitability and adequacy of any training provided by agents of the two bodies.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has for an independent inspectorate to monitor the quality of training offered by LECs.
Mr. Stewart : My right hon. Friend has no such plans. The Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 lays upon Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise the duty, which may not be delegated, of keeping under continuous review the suitability and adequacy of any training provided by agents of the two bodies.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what contracts awarded to training companies have been cancelled on the grounds of poor quality.
Mr. Stewart : The cancellation of contracts between local enterprise companies and training companies on the grounds of poor quality is an operational matter within the responsibilities of local enterprise companies. I have asked the chairmen of Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise to write to the hon. Member.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will place in the Library a copy of the procedures to be followed by local enterprise companies in the allocation of training contracts.
Mr. Stewart : Local enterprise companies are encouraged to operate competitive tendering for their contracting for goods and services where feasible. Procedures for doing so, however, are a matter for Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what consideration has been given to the possibility of future contracts between Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise and LECs permitting the latter to publish the price of training contracts.
Mr. Stewart : Operating contracts are a matter for the enterprise bodies. There is no provision in the current local enterprise company contracts preventing them from publishing the price of their training contracts.
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NHS Trusts
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a full list of persons appointed to date to national health service trusts.
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