§ Mr. Fosterasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish the planned reduction in the number of preparatory training opportunity programmes training places in each region of the United Kingdom and the total.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 1 April 1980]: The following table shows 219W for each region of the training services division of the Manpower Services Commission the estimated number of trainees
PREPARATORY COURSE STARTS Region 1979–80 (Estimated) 1980–81 (Expected) Change Scotland 200 340 +140 Northern 110 124 + 14 Yorks/Humberside 235 352 +117 North West 637 390 -247 Midlands 804 741 -63 Wales 91 135 +44 South West 111 114 +3 South East 542 636 +94 London 900 660 -240 Great Britain 3,630 3,492 -138 The TOPS scheme does not extend to no entitlement to a redundancy payment Northern Ireland.