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Employment Schemes
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many people after attending (1) employment rehabilitation service, (2) Employment Service services, (3) employment training, (4) the employment transfer scheme, (5) the free forward fares scheme, (6) industrial training boards, (7) job clubs, (8) the job creation programme, (9) the jobfinder's grant, (10) the job interview guarantee, (11) the jobmatch
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scheme, (12) the jobplan workshop, (13) the job review, (14) the job release scheme, (15) job review workshops, (16) the job start scheme, (17) the jobseeker's allowance, (18) the job share programme, (19) the job splitting scheme, (20) the job training programme, (21) learning for work, (22) job seminars, (23) local enterprise agencies, (24) Manpower Services Commission, (25) non-advanced and work-related further education, (26) new job training scheme, (27) the national policy skills scheme and (28) national record of achievement (a) went into employment
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and (b) went on to further schemes, including those who left before completion of the scheme, in each year of each scheme's operation; and what type and level of qualification each leaver obtained for each year to the latest available year for which data are available. [8738]
Mr. Paice: The information requested can be provided only at a disproportionate costs.
Liverpool Blue Coat School
Mr. Alton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when she expects to announce confirmation of the schedule 5 enactment in respect of the grant-maintained status of the Liverpool Blue Coat school; and if she will make a statement. [8871]
Mr. Robin Squire: Liverpool local education authority has requested that the Secretary of State declares void the ballot for grant-maintained status in respect of the Blue Coat school. No decision on grant-maintained status can be made until the investigation into the ballot complaint has been completed. That investigation will be completed shortly.
Project Work
Mr. Congdon: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what progress she has made on extending the project work pilots; and if she will make a statement. [9272]
Mrs. Gillian Shephard: In November I announced my plans to extend the project work approach to 28 new pilot areas across the country, covering up to 100,000 people, and to test a number of variations on the basic model. A list of the locations and start dates of the new pilots is contained in the following table.
| Type of pilot | Starting date | locations piloting this type |
|---|---|---|
| Basic model | February 1997 | Dudley and Sandwell Nottingham Bristol Bath Weston-super-Mare North East London Derby Hull Medway and Maidstone |
| Intensive literacy and numeracy help | April 1997 | Bradford Huddersfield Norwich Dundee Stoke |
| Increased private sector involvement | April 1997 | Hertford and Harlow Peterborough Edinburgh Portsmouth |
| Differences in length and content of the intensive help prior to mandatory work experience | February 1997 (full range of ES help excluding Workstart) | Bolton and Bury Swansea Neath and Port Talbot Merthyr and Rhymney Preston Lanarkshire |
| Variation including Jobmatch | February 1997 (full range of ES help including Jobmatch) | East London Wigan and St. Helens |
| Variation with period A shortened to 8 weeks | April 1997 (8 week period of intensive help) | Brighton South Tyneside |
| Variation with period A shortened to 4 weeks | April 1997 (4 week period of intensive help) | Leicester Grimsby Dunfermline |
Contract for Work
Mr. Congdon: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what progress she has made on the contract for work pilot; and if she will make a statement. [9271]
Mrs. Gillian Shephard: In November I announced that the Department would be introducing pilots to explore ways in which the talent for innovation of the private sector might be used to help unemployed people back to work. The Chancellor announced in his Budget speech that these pilots would be called contract for work.
The aim of the pilots will be to test the cost effectiveness of the private sector in getting long-term unemployed people back to work and to test specific approaches to that task. The pilots will have an incentive- based funding structure which rewards success.
There will be two private sector contract for work pilots, each covering around 3,000 people. Another 6,000 people will be placed on programmes run by the Employment Service, to provide an additional measure against which the performance of the private sector can be judged. The pilots will last for 12 months and participants will be referred to them for a maximum of six months. The pilots will start in the spring and invitations to tender should be issued by mid-February.
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On locations for the pilots, I have decided that the private sector interest should be explored across four major cities, including Manchester, London, Glasgow and Birmingham. A final decision will be made according to the quality of bids received. Before invitations to tender are issued, my officials will initiate a series of discussions with a range of organisations to draw on their expertise and experience in considering detailed design issues.
Through these pilots we will provide an opportunity for the long-term unemployed to work directly with the private sector, an approach which I hope will be mutually beneficial. I believe that these pilots will be a welcome and necessary addition to the help that already exists for unemployed people.
Mr. Sheerman:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what proportion of the Government funding for the training and enterprise councils was represented by the salaries of their chief executives in the last year for which figures are available.[8424]
Mr. Paice:
The information requested is not available. However, in line with other private companies, training and enterprise councils are required to provide information about their funding and about the remuneration of directors in their annual accounts. Copies of individual TEC accounts and of an amalgamated income and expenditure account for TECs in England are held in the Library.
Mr. Martyn Jones:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the onset times of the cases of the new variant of CJD by month; and if he will make a statement. [7948]
Mr. Horam:
The month and year of onset for the 14 cases of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease confirmed by the national CJD surveillance unit up to the end of November 1996, listed in order of onset, are:
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Therefore there is a long delay between the date of onset--the date of the first clinical symptoms related to CJD--and the date of confirmation. The median duration of illness in these cases is 14 months.
Dr. Lynne Jones:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance he has issued on the necessary period of in-patient treatment for a proper risk assessment to be carried out before a patient's discharge. [8262]
Mr. Burns:
Guidance issued by the national health service executive in 1994 on the discharge of mentally disordered people requires a full risk assessment to be carried out before discharge of any patient who may present special risks. There is no set time limit for this task.
Cases can be confirmed only by examination of brain pathology. Normally this is done post mortem, and in the rare cases where a positive brain biopsy is obtained this is not possible until fairly late in the course of the disease.
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