House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 12 Jan 2000 (pt 3)

Imphal Barracks (Civilian Staff)

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he plans to answer the question tabled on 19 November for answer on 23 November by the hon. Member of Vale for York concerning the number of civilian staff employed at Imphal Barracks. [103760]

Mr. Spellar: I replied to the hon. Member on 21 December 1999.

PRIME MINISTER

Barnsley

Q15. Mr. Illsley: To ask the Prime Minister when he next expects to visit Barnsley. [103458]

The Prime Minister: I have no immediate plans to do so.

Joint Cabinet Consultative Committee

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his answer of 20 December 1999, Official Report, column 353W, concerning the public disclosure

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of discussions at the JCCC, if he will investigate the source of the press reports of the JCCC meeting on 13 December. [104138]

The Prime Minister: No.

Committee on Standards in Public Life

Mr. Winnick: To ask the Prime Minister when he expects to receive the Sixth report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. [104643]

The Prime Minister: I am pleased to announce that Lord Neill has today published the Committee's Sixth Report. The report reviews the implementation of the recommendations from its First Report.

The Government welcome the report. We will need to consider carefully the recommendations and will give a detailed response to the report in due course.

TRADE AND INDUSTRY

Animal Research

Mr. Wyatt: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the funding of researchers through MRC or ARC grants to travel abroad to conduct research on animals. [104282]

Ms Hewitt: The MRC and BBSRC (formerly known as ARC) do not provide funds for any animal research unless the work proposed is of high quality, the need to use animals has been properly justified, and any suffering is minimised.

Collaborations between UK scientists and their counterparts in the USA, Europe, or other countries play an important role in ensuring the quality and efficiency of UK scientific research, and avoiding duplication. Researchers supported through MRC and BBSRC grants will often pursue joint projects with researchers in other countries, and a small proportion of these may involve animals.

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The MRC and BBSRC expects UK researchers collaborating overseas to ensure standards at least meet those set out in the individual Research Council's own ethical guidelines. The Research Councils will not provide grant funds for animal research if it appears that it is being done overseas in order to reduce costs or to bypass the high standards set in the UK.

Very occasionally, MRC has provided funds for work on health problems in developing countries where the medical problem being studied--for example, transmission of parasites from animals to people--has meant the research had to be done in the developing country.

BBSRC funds the travel and subsistence costs of researchers to enable them to visit overseas research laboratories for short periods. Research on animals may be involved, but the annual number of such travel and subsistence is small, and those involving animal research is a small fraction of this.

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

New Deal

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many people joined the Full Time Education and Training Option of the New Deal for 18 to 24 year olds between January 1998 and the end of July 1999, by unit of delivery; how many and what percentage of these (a) completed their courses before leaving the New Deal, (b) left their courses before completing them and (c) left at any stage for unknown destinations. [100807]

Ms Jowell [holding answer 2 December 1999]: The information available currently is shown in the following table. The Full-Time Education and Training (FTET) Option is designed to give people the skills that they need to get jobs; of the 7,891 young people shown as having left the Option early, 3,200 or 40 per cent. had found jobs. A recent survey has shown that 57 per cent. of young people leaving New Deal for unknown destinations had found a job.

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Unit of delivery Starts to FTET option between January 1998 and July 1999 Of which, number who had left New Deal by the end of September 1999 Number recorded as completing FTET option before leaving New Deal As a percentage of those for whom completed/ left early is known Number recorded as leaving FTET option early before leaving New Deal As a percentage of those for whom completed/ left early is known Number who had left for an unknown destination by the end of September 1999 As a percentage of those who had left New Deal by the end of September 1999

Tayside 474 323 61 36 109 64 47 15

Ayrshire 371 242 37 25 113 75 29 12

Borders 64 34 1 7 14 93 8 24

Dumfries and Galloway 181 101 23 40 35 60 19 19

Dunbarton 211 103 15 28 38 72 21 20

Edinburgh, East and Mid Lothian 317 200 24 29 58 71 40 20

Fife 479 295 48 30 113 70 60 20

Forth Valley(2) 294 145 18 24 58 76 31 21

Glasgow 1,112 570 74 24 240 76 133 23

Grampian 134 80 11 28 29 73 15 19

Moray, Strathspay and Badenoch 35 23 7 70 3 30 7 30

Lanarkshire 651 348 23 12 176 88 65 19

Renfrewshire 272 153 22 23 73 77 36 24

West Lothian 98 60 7 21 26 79 12 20

Argyll and The Islands 20 9 0 0 3 100 1 11

Caithness and Sutherland 30 15 1 14 6 86 2 13

Inverness and Nairn 44 22 8 53 7 47 5 23

Lochaber 6 2 0 0 1 100 0 0

Western Isles 30 17 7 88 1 13 4 24

Orkney 6 2 1 100 0 0 0 0

Ross and Cromarty 43 28 9 64 5 36 4 14

Shetland 6 4 0 0 1 100 4 100

Skye and Lochalsh 5 1 0 -- 0 -- 0 0

Newcastle, Gateshead and South Tyneside 1,665 891 161 36 281 64 198 22

Northumberland 406 185 43 38 69 62 28 15

Tyneside North(2) 415 167 36 40 54 60 31 19

Durham North and Durham South 1,038 526 91 29 225 71 129 25

City of Sunderland formerly Wearside 767 363 79 42 110 58 74 20

Tees North and Tees South 1,480 597 84 28 216 72 157 26

Cumbria 478 235 36 30 83 70 41 17

Wirral 524 318 53 32 113 68 58 18

Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre 127 78 7 20 28 80 20 26

Bolton 116 58 8 47 9 53 11 19

Bury 115 56 12 55 10 45 19 34

Central Lancashire 128 72 5 13 33 87 16 22

Cheshire 222 94 5 11 42 89 22 23

City Pride Manchester 874 394 58 36 102 64 100 25

East Lancashire 283 148 22 24 69 76 37 25

Halton and Warrington 335 151 9 18 42 82 27 18

Knowsley 552 273 18 13 125 87 77 28

Liverpool 1,438 633 79 26 220 74 146 23

North Lancashire 137 79 16 32 34 68 22 28

Oldham 141 63 2 10 18 90 18 29

Rochdale 259 160 13 20 51 80 48 30

Sefton 395 209 31 36 55 64 43 21

St. Helens 244 97 11 21 41 79 20 21

Stockport 120 60 8 26 23 74 23 38

West Lancashire(2) 104 35 7 70 3 30 4 11

Wigan 177 83 5 12 37 88 26 31

Sheffield 1,044 558 93 35 174 65 149 27

Rotherham 664 357 57 28 145 72 95 27

South Humber(2) 242 92 4 8 44 92 26 28

Calderdale and Kirklees 652 295 40 25 118 75 98 33

Barnsley and The Dearne 646 303 19 14 115 86 83 27

Bradford 780 442 71 30 166 70 132 30

Hull and East Coast formerly Hull 883 433 42 27 114 73 104 24

Leeds 511 269 23 21 86 79 89 33

North Yorkshire 322 184 33 35 62 65 52 28

Wakefield and Doncaster 791 453 43 16 219 84 124 27

West Wales 365 180 26 29 65 71 51 28

Swansea 488 307 42 26 118 74 81 26

North West Wales 214 96 15 37 26 63 15 16

Powys 60 30 6 38 10 63 6 20

Ceredigion 59 28 6 46 7 54 7 25

North East Wales formerly Flintshire and Wrexham 133 55 4 29 10 71 9 16

North Wales Coast 146 66 12 40 18 60 17 26

Cardiff and Vale 358 206 31 37 53 63 49 24

Bridgend and Glamorgan Valleys(2) 289 114 13 27 35 73 26 23

Heads of the Valley and Caerphilly 389 179 17 18 76 82 26 15

Newport, Torfaen and Monmouth 217 125 17 23 56 77 32 26

Black Country 1,515 727 74 24 239 76 190 26

Birmingham 1,538 556 62 36 112 64 157 28

Solihull(2) 198 82 3 8 35 92 22 27

Staffordshire 526 223 15 14 91 86 59 26

Hereford and Worcester 177 101 17 35 32 65 26 26

Coventry 318 161 16 30 37 70 48 30

Warwickshire 155 78 12 34 23 66 28 36

Shropshire 158 74 5 17 24 83 22 30

Southern Derbyshire 419 240 24 25 72 75 57 24

Cambridge TTWA 141 71 12 43 16 57 17 24

North Derbyshire 313 164 26 33 54 68 33 20

Leicestershire(2) 442 173 13 21 50 79 64 37

Lincolnshire 350 184 30 30 70 70 58 32

Norfolk 506 252 40 31 91 69 37 15

West Norfolk 79 42 3 10 26 90 11 26

Northamptonshire 147 93 9 20 35 80 27 29

Greater Nottingham 590 260 34 27 94 73 78 30

North Nottinghamshire 391 157 24 27 64 73 41 26

Peterborough 147 85 10 21 38 79 26 31

Suffolk 369 173 30 32 64 68 30 17

Waveney 171 55 14 44 18 56 7 13

Cornwall 433 286 64 47 73 53 60 21

Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset 86 49 5 26 14 74 10 20

Bristol and South Gloucestershire formerly Central Bristol 317 151 15 18 67 82 52 34

Dorset 260 159 26 31 57 69 43 27

Exeter and East Devon(2) 144 57 6 21 23 79 10 18

Torbay and South Devon formerly South Devon 199 112 13 19 57 81 21 19

North Devon 64 38 10 59 7 41 10 26

Gloucestershire 149 91 9 22 32 78 19 21

Plymouth 501 279 39 26 111 74 63 23

Somerset 242 136 19 28 48 72 36 26

Wiltshire and Swindon formerly Wiltshire 154 90 10 19 42 81 22 24

Eastbourne and Hastings formerly Eastbourne 261 162 20 27 55 73 57 35

Lambeth 367 183 33 52 30 48 63 34

Harlow 51 32 3 20 12 80 15 47

Hackney and City(2) 580 150 20 36 35 64 42 28

Hertfordshire 320 181 13 19 55 81 59 33

Brighton 154 65 8 31 18 69 17 26

Canterbury 242 120 15 31 34 69 36 30

Channel 156 78 10 31 22 69 19 24

Chatham 300 148 20 25 59 75 43 29

Crawley 35 19 3 33 6 67 8 42

Croydon and Bromley 240 111 10 23 33 77 32 29

Guildford 79 55 10 36 18 64 15 27

Lewisham 305 86 11 41 16 59 27 31

Maidstone, Dartford and West Kent 97 54 6 25 18 75 10 19

Southwark 467 179 14 30 32 70 55 31

Greenwich 402 139 17 37 29 63 33 24

Bexley 114 44 7 30 16 70 9 20

Sutton, Merton Esher, Kingston, Epsom 164 76 8 38 13 62 19 25

Wandsworth 223 95 16 43 21 57 39 41

West Sussex Coastal Plain 56 28 2 18 9 82 14 50

South Essex 353 192 31 49 32 51 42 22

North Essex(2) formerly North and Mid Essex 275 151 24 32 52 68 35 23

Edgware and Leaside 801 320 39 40 58 60 107 33

North East London 398 176 35 40 52 60 68 39

Havering, Barking and Dagenham 257 133 18 37 31 63 34 26

Newham 609 157 23 43 31 57 49 31

Tower Hamlets 299 109 20 83 4 17 39 36

Camden and North Islington 338 96 20 65 11 35 30 31

Ealing and Hillingdon formerly Ealing 260 105 11 37 19 63 38 36

Bedfordshire and Luton 339 213 19 22 68 78 40 19

Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire 92 51 6 21 22 79 16 31

Mid Hants 38 18 3 38 5 63 6 33

Oxfordshire 177 82 6 21 23 79 19 23

Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 393 229 26 29 65 71 75 33

Isle of Wight 126 52 6 32 13 68 17 33

Reading 36 24 1 13 7 88 5 21

Slough 137 70 13 35 24 65 19 27

Southampton and South West Hampshire 167 99 16 39 25 61 36 36

Wembley 482 208 29 45 35 55 58 28

Westminster 115 30 1 13 7 88 7 23

Hounslow and Richmond 181 94 17 40 25 60 30 32

Hammersmith, Fulham, Kensington, Chelsea 270 87 4 20 16 80 23 26

Great Britain(3) 48,631 23,674 3,213 29 7,891 71 5,998 25

Unit of delivery	Starts to FTET option between January 1998 and July 1999	Of which, number who had left New Deal by the end of September 1999	Number recorded as completing FTET option before leaving New Deal	As a percentage of those for whom completed/ left early is known	Number recorded as leaving FTET option early before leaving New Deal	As a percentage of those for whom completed/ left early is known	Number who had left for an unknown destination by the end of September 1999	As a percentage of those who had left New Deal by the end of September 1999
Tayside	474	323	61	36	109	64	47	15
Ayrshire	371	242	37	25	113	75	29	12
Borders	64	34	1	7	14	93	8	24
Dumfries and Galloway	181	101	23	40	35	60	19	19
Dunbarton	211	103	15	28	38	72	21	20
Edinburgh, East and Mid Lothian	317	200	24	29	58	71	40	20
Fife	479	295	48	30	113	70	60	20
Forth Valley(2)	294	145	18	24	58	76	31	21
Glasgow	1,112	570	74	24	240	76	133	23
Grampian	134	80	11	28	29	73	15	19
Moray, Strathspay and Badenoch	35	23	7	70	3	30	7	30
Lanarkshire	651	348	23	12	176	88	65	19
Renfrewshire	272	153	22	23	73	77	36	24
West Lothian	98	60	7	21	26	79	12	20
Argyll and The Islands	20	9	0	0	3	100	1	11
Caithness and Sutherland	30	15	1	14	6	86	2	13
Inverness and Nairn	44	22	8	53	7	47	5	23
Lochaber	6	2	0	0	1	100	0	0
Western Isles	30	17	7	88	1	13	4	24
Orkney	6	2	1	100	0	0	0	0
Ross and Cromarty	43	28	9	64	5	36	4	14
Shetland	6	4	0	0	1	100	4	100
Skye and Lochalsh	5	1	0	--	0	--	0	0
Newcastle, Gateshead and South Tyneside	1,665	891	161	36	281	64	198	22
Northumberland	406	185	43	38	69	62	28	15
Tyneside North(2)	415	167	36	40	54	60	31	19
Durham North and Durham South	1,038	526	91	29	225	71	129	25
City of Sunderland formerly Wearside	767	363	79	42	110	58	74	20
Tees North and Tees South	1,480	597	84	28	216	72	157	26
Cumbria	478	235	36	30	83	70	41	17
Wirral	524	318	53	32	113	68	58	18
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre	127	78	7	20	28	80	20	26
Bolton	116	58	8	47	9	53	11	19
Bury	115	56	12	55	10	45	19	34
Central Lancashire	128	72	5	13	33	87	16	22
Cheshire	222	94	5	11	42	89	22	23
City Pride Manchester	874	394	58	36	102	64	100	25
East Lancashire	283	148	22	24	69	76	37	25
Halton and Warrington	335	151	9	18	42	82	27	18
Knowsley	552	273	18	13	125	87	77	28
Liverpool	1,438	633	79	26	220	74	146	23
North Lancashire	137	79	16	32	34	68	22	28
Oldham	141	63	2	10	18	90	18	29
Rochdale	259	160	13	20	51	80	48	30
Sefton	395	209	31	36	55	64	43	21
St. Helens	244	97	11	21	41	79	20	21
Stockport	120	60	8	26	23	74	23	38
West Lancashire(2)	104	35	7	70	3	30	4	11
Wigan	177	83	5	12	37	88	26	31
Sheffield	1,044	558	93	35	174	65	149	27
Rotherham	664	357	57	28	145	72	95	27
South Humber(2)	242	92	4	8	44	92	26	28
Calderdale and Kirklees	652	295	40	25	118	75	98	33
Barnsley and The Dearne	646	303	19	14	115	86	83	27
Bradford	780	442	71	30	166	70	132	30
Hull and East Coast formerly Hull	883	433	42	27	114	73	104	24
Leeds	511	269	23	21	86	79	89	33
North Yorkshire	322	184	33	35	62	65	52	28
Wakefield and Doncaster	791	453	43	16	219	84	124	27
West Wales	365	180	26	29	65	71	51	28
Swansea	488	307	42	26	118	74	81	26
North West Wales	214	96	15	37	26	63	15	16
Powys	60	30	6	38	10	63	6	20
Ceredigion	59	28	6	46	7	54	7	25
North East Wales formerly Flintshire and Wrexham	133	55	4	29	10	71	9	16
North Wales Coast	146	66	12	40	18	60	17	26
Cardiff and Vale	358	206	31	37	53	63	49	24
Bridgend and Glamorgan Valleys(2)	289	114	13	27	35	73	26	23
Heads of the Valley and Caerphilly	389	179	17	18	76	82	26	15
Newport, Torfaen and Monmouth	217	125	17	23	56	77	32	26
Black Country	1,515	727	74	24	239	76	190	26
Birmingham	1,538	556	62	36	112	64	157	28
Solihull(2)	198	82	3	8	35	92	22	27
Staffordshire	526	223	15	14	91	86	59	26
Hereford and Worcester	177	101	17	35	32	65	26	26
Coventry	318	161	16	30	37	70	48	30
Warwickshire	155	78	12	34	23	66	28	36
Shropshire	158	74	5	17	24	83	22	30
Southern Derbyshire	419	240	24	25	72	75	57	24
Cambridge TTWA	141	71	12	43	16	57	17	24
North Derbyshire	313	164	26	33	54	68	33	20
Leicestershire(2)	442	173	13	21	50	79	64	37
Lincolnshire	350	184	30	30	70	70	58	32
Norfolk	506	252	40	31	91	69	37	15
West Norfolk	79	42	3	10	26	90	11	26
Northamptonshire	147	93	9	20	35	80	27	29
Greater Nottingham	590	260	34	27	94	73	78	30
North Nottinghamshire	391	157	24	27	64	73	41	26
Peterborough	147	85	10	21	38	79	26	31
Suffolk	369	173	30	32	64	68	30	17
Waveney	171	55	14	44	18	56	7	13
Cornwall	433	286	64	47	73	53	60	21
Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset	86	49	5	26	14	74	10	20
Bristol and South Gloucestershire formerly Central Bristol	317	151	15	18	67	82	52	34
Dorset	260	159	26	31	57	69	43	27
Exeter and East Devon(2)	144	57	6	21	23	79	10	18
Torbay and South Devon formerly South Devon	199	112	13	19	57	81	21	19
North Devon	64	38	10	59	7	41	10	26
Gloucestershire	149	91	9	22	32	78	19	21
Plymouth	501	279	39	26	111	74	63	23
Somerset	242	136	19	28	48	72	36	26
Wiltshire and Swindon formerly Wiltshire	154	90	10	19	42	81	22	24
Eastbourne and Hastings formerly Eastbourne	261	162	20	27	55	73	57	35
Lambeth	367	183	33	52	30	48	63	34
Harlow	51	32	3	20	12	80	15	47
Hackney and City(2)	580	150	20	36	35	64	42	28
Hertfordshire	320	181	13	19	55	81	59	33
Brighton	154	65	8	31	18	69	17	26
Canterbury	242	120	15	31	34	69	36	30
Channel	156	78	10	31	22	69	19	24
Chatham	300	148	20	25	59	75	43	29
Crawley	35	19	3	33	6	67	8	42
Croydon and Bromley	240	111	10	23	33	77	32	29
Guildford	79	55	10	36	18	64	15	27
Lewisham	305	86	11	41	16	59	27	31
Maidstone, Dartford and West Kent	97	54	6	25	18	75	10	19
Southwark	467	179	14	30	32	70	55	31
Greenwich	402	139	17	37	29	63	33	24
Bexley	114	44	7	30	16	70	9	20
Sutton, Merton Esher, Kingston, Epsom	164	76	8	38	13	62	19	25
Wandsworth	223	95	16	43	21	57	39	41
West Sussex Coastal Plain	56	28	2	18	9	82	14	50
South Essex	353	192	31	49	32	51	42	22
North Essex(2) formerly North and Mid Essex	275	151	24	32	52	68	35	23
Edgware and Leaside	801	320	39	40	58	60	107	33
North East London	398	176	35	40	52	60	68	39
Havering, Barking and Dagenham	257	133	18	37	31	63	34	26
Newham	609	157	23	43	31	57	49	31
Tower Hamlets	299	109	20	83	4	17	39	36
Camden and North Islington	338	96	20	65	11	35	30	31
Ealing and Hillingdon formerly Ealing	260	105	11	37	19	63	38	36
Bedfordshire and Luton	339	213	19	22	68	78	40	19
Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire	92	51	6	21	22	79	16	31
Mid Hants	38	18	3	38	5	63	6	33
Oxfordshire	177	82	6	21	23	79	19	23
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire	393	229	26	29	65	71	75	33
Isle of Wight	126	52	6	32	13	68	17	33
Reading	36	24	1	13	7	88	5	21
Slough	137	70	13	35	24	65	19	27
Southampton and South West Hampshire	167	99	16	39	25	61	36	36
Wembley	482	208	29	45	35	55	58	28
Westminster	115	30	1	13	7	88	7	23
Hounslow and Richmond	181	94	17	40	25	60	30	32
Hammersmith, Fulham, Kensington, Chelsea	270	87	4	20	16	80	23	26
Great Britain(3)	48,631	23,674	3,213	29	7,891	71	5,998	25

(2) A private Sector led Unit of Delivery

(3) Great Britain excludes those for whom no Unit of Delivery is recorded on the New Deal Evaluation Database

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Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many people (a) have found sustained unsubsidised employment of 13 weeks or more, (b) are on follow-through and (c) have left for destinations other than sustained unsubsidised employment of 13 weeks or more from the New Deal scheme. [102108]

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Ms Jowell [holding answer 9 December 1999]: The New Deals have made an excellent start in helping unemployed people into work. Latest figures to the end of October 1999 show that, through the New Deal for Young People, 107,280 people have found sustained unsubsidised employment, 22,980 young people were on Follow-Through and 144,290 young people were recorded

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as having left New Deal for destinations other than sustained unsubsidised employment.

Of the 144,290 recorded as destinations other than sustained employment, 30,060 transferred to another benefit, 44,750 went to another known destination and 69,480 went to an unknown destination. A recently published study reporting on clients who left the Gateway stage of New Deal for an unknown destination and whose JSA claim which qualified them for New Deal had been closed found that 57 per cent. of them left New Deal to go into paid employment. Over 100,000 young people have gained training and work experience in the non- employment options.

Through the New Deal for long-term unemployed people aged 25 and over, equivalent figures were 19,730 into sustained unsubsidised employment, 990 older clients on the Follow-Through stage and 94,100 to destinations other than sustained unsubsidised employment.

A further 24,430 unemployed people under these two New Deals have found sustained subsidised employment.

A sustained job is one where the client does not return to JSA or New Deal within 13 weeks.

Mr. Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many young people in West Sussex have been through the New Deal scheme; and how many have subsequently found unsubsidised employment. [104273]

Ms Jowell: The latest statistics to the end of October 1999 show that of the 676 young people who started New Deal in the West Sussex Coastal Plain Unit of Delivery, 447 had left. It is encouraging that in West Sussex, 347 young people have found unsubsidised employment when they were benefiting from the New Deal. Others will have found work without informing the Employment Service.

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