Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2015-06-18 Daily Xml

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Women's Unemployment

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (15:02): By way of supplementary question arising from the minister's answer, indicating that the government would wish to see better completion rates: what would be the minimum completion rate or rate range that the government would see as facilitating these stated goals?

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (15:02): I thank the honourable member for her question. We have not set a particular target but we will require that, when training providers tender or apply for subsidised training, they will be required to show what their employability outcomes have been and what their completion rates are. We will be using that to drive providers to continue to improve those outcomes. Obviously those training providers who are doing particularly well in that place will be in a much stronger position to receive subsidised funding.