§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many area manpower boards there are; if he will list them; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThere are 54 area manpower boards. The full list is as follows:
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Scotland Highlands and Islands Northern Grampian and Tayside Northumberland, North Tyneside and Newcastle Central and Fife Lothian and Borders Sunderland, South Tyneside and Gateshead Glasgow City Dumbarton, Argyll and Renfrewshire Durham Cleveland Lanarkshire Ayrshire Yorkshire and Humberside Dumfries and Galloway North Yorkshire West Yorkshire Wales South Yorkshire Gwynedd Humberside Clwyd and Powys Dyfed and West Glamorgan North West Mid and South Glamorgan Greater Manchester Gwent Cheshire
Cumbria Hertfordshire Lancashire Essex Merseyside Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Midlands Kent Birmingham and Solihull Norfolk and Suffolk Coventry and Warwickshire Surrey Derbyshire, including High East and West Sussex Peak Dudley and Sandwell London Leicestershire and London North (Brent, Northamptonshire Harrow, Westminster, Lincolnshire Camden, Barnet, Haringey Nottinghamshire and Enfield) Shropshire, Hereford and London West (Hillingdon, Worcester Ealing, Hounslow, Staffordshire Hammersmith, Kensington Wolverhampton and Walsall and Chelsea, Richmond, Kingston, Merton, Sutton South West and Wandsworth) Avon London North East Cornwall and Devon (Islington, City, Hackney, Dorset and Somerset Tower Hamlets, Waltham Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Forest, Newham, Redbridge, Barking and Havering) South East London South East Bedfordshire and (Lambeth, Southwark, Cambridgeshire Lewisham, Greenwich, Berkshire and Oxfordshire Bexley, Bromley and Buckinghamshire and Croydon)
§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will consider granting Leicestershire its own area manpower board.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonArea manpower boards are appointed by the Manpower Services Commission to advise it on the operation of its programmes at local level. The Government's recent White Paper "Training for Jobs" indicates that the commission has been asked to consider, consult and report to the Government on appropriate machinery at both national and local level for carrying out its enhanced responsibilities. That review will cover area manpower boards.