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Placing Assessment and Counselling Teams

Mr. Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the main locations of the placing assessment and counselling teams which provide employment and advisory services for employers and people with disabilities in Scotland. [298]

Mr. Forth: Responsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service agency under its chief executive. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.

Letter from M. E. G. Fogden to Mr. James Wallace, dated 22 November 1995:


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Mr. Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what information she has on the number of people in (a) Orkney and (b) Shetland who have made contact through their local job centre with the placing assessment and counselling teams in each year since the establishment of PACTs in 1992. [299]

Mr. Forth: Responsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service agency under its chief executive. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.

Letter from M. E. G. Fogden to Mr. James Wallace, dated 22 November 1995:


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Kirklees Local Education Authority

Mrs. Peacock: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much was spent in total on school education in Kirklees in each year since 1974 at constant prices. [1337]

Mr. Robin Squire: The following table shows, at 1993-94 prices, the expenditure on pre-primary, primary and secondary education by Kirklees local education authority from 1974-75 to 1993-94, the latest year for which figures are available. These figures have not been adjusted for any changes of function.

Kirklees: Gross expenditure on school education 1993-94 prices

Year£ million
1974-75105.95
1975-76100.88
1976-7799.35
1977-7893.43
1978-7995.29
1979-8093.30
1980-8198.50
1981-82101.25
1982-83100.95
1983-8498.98
1984-85100.83
1985-86102.70
1986-87109.63
1987-88112.72
1988-89117.55
1989-90119.37
1990-91115.73
1991-92110.90
1992-93132.76
1993-94113.55


Mrs. Peacock: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much was spent in total on education in Kirklees in each year since 1974 at constant prices. [1338]

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Mr. Squire: The following table shows, in 1993-94 prices, the expenditure by Kirklees local education authority from 1974-75 to 1993-94, the latest year for which figures are available. These figures have not been adjusted for any changes of function.

Kirklees: Gross Expenditure 1993-94 Prices

Year£ million
1974-75190.40
1975-76185.80
1976-77186.25
1977-78182.23
1978-79184.58
1979-80186.43
1980-81187.96
1981-82192.16
1982-83192.53
1983-84190.61
1984-85191.22
1985-86196.31
1986-87210.86
1987-88219.34
1988-89223.28
1989-90196.38
1990-91194.70
1991-92195.07
1992-93201.43
1993-94174.98


Mrs. Peacock: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will set out the changes in real terms for education spending for each sector in Kirklees since 1980. [1339]

Mr. Squire: The increase in expenditure by Kirklees local education authority on pre-primary and primary education and secondary education, between 1979-80 and 1993-94, the latest year for which outturn figures are available, is as follows.

Kirklees LEA: Net recurrent expenditure, real terms

Year Pre-Primary and Primary Education £000 Secondary Education £000
1979-8037,75646,029
1993-9463,92162,046
Increase26,165 (40.9 per cent.)16,017 (25.8 per cent.)

Unemployment, Durham

Mr. Steinberg: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many people under the age of 25 years in the City of Durham constituency are unemployed and are in receipt of benefit; and how many of these are long-term unemployed. [156]

Mrs. Angela Knight: I have been asked to reply.

In October 1995, there were 937 people aged under 25-year-old claiming unemployment-related benefits-- unemployment benefit, income support or national insurance credits. Of these, 168 had been unemployed for over one year.

Labour Statistics

Mr. Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what were the (a) median, (b) highest

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and (c) lowest decile earnings of full-time workers on adult rates, distinguishing between male and female and manual and non-manual, in (i) Yorkshire and Humberside, (ii) the north of England and (iii) the United Kingdom in each year since 1993. [1459]

Mrs. Angela Knight: I have been asked to reply.

Information on the median, quartiles and deciles of weekly and hourly earnings of full-time workers in the regions of Great Britain is shown in table 116 of part E of the new earnings survey reports. Copies of these reports are available in the Library.

Mr. Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what were the current average earnings of part-time workers on adult rates, distinguishing between manual and non-manual in (a) Yorkshire and Humberside, (b) West Yorkshire, (c) South Yorkshire, (d) North Yorkshire, (e) Humberside, (f) the north of England and (g) the United Kingdom. [1457]

Mrs. Knight: I have been asked to reply.

Information available from the new earnings survey is provided in the following table.

Average Weekly Earnings for part-time workers on adult rates, pay not affected by absence

Non manualManual
Region££
Yorkshire and Humberside 112.50 78.70
West Yorkshire117.8079.90
South Yorkshire112.5074.60
North Yorkshire(10)--(10)--
Humberside105.10(10)--
North of England109.5074.80
Great Britain118.8080.80

(10) Not available because sample size too small to give a reliable

estimate.


Mr. Dobson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is (a) the number and (b) the proportion of (i) manual part-time workers and (ii) non-manual part-time workers broken down into men and women working less than eight hours a week and 16 hours a week. [1487]

Mrs. Knight: I have been asked to reply.

Estimates from the labour force survey are shown in the table.

Part-time manual and non-manual workers by the total number of hours they usually work--Great Britain, spring 1995

Working less than 8 hours a week Working less than 16 hours a week
ThousandPer cent.ThousandPer cent.
Men
Manual part-time 107 20 253 47
Non manual part-time 104 19 292 54
Women
Manual part-time 319 16 953 48
Non manual part-time 353 12 1,093 36


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