§ Mr. Gordon Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total number of Government industrial retraining places in each planning region of Great Britain; and if he will express the number of training places as a percentage of both the total insured work force and the total unemployed in each region.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThis information is not available in the form requested. The following table shows the planned number of entrants to training courses being run under the auspices of the Manpower Services Commission's training opportunities scheme in each of teh Commission's training regions in 1981–82.
Regions Planned Numbers of Entrants to TOPS Training Percentage of *Insured Work Force Percentage of Unemployed (October 1981) Scotland 9,052 0.38 2.78 Northern 5,689 0.40 2.63 Yorks and Humberside 5,627 0.24 2.03 North-West 9,840 0.32 2.32 Midlands 10,588 0.25 2.01 Wales 4,395 0.37 2.58 South-West 5,346 0.28 2.97 South-East 10,621 0.22 2.54 London 10,359 0.25 3.05 *Based on number of employees in employment June 1981. self employed June 1975. registered unemployed October 1981.