§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many voluntary organisations will be obliged to discontinue their training programme for young people as a result of the proposal to reduce training places in the voluntary sector from 88,000 to 60,000; and what action he intends to make up this loss.
§ Mr. Peter Morrison[pursuant to his reply, 30 January 1984, c. 29]:The Government believe that as many as possible of the young people entering the youth training scheme should be catered for under employer-based mode 156W A schemes. In the circumstances I am satisfied that we will need fewer Mode B1 places in 1984–85 than were approved for this year, particularly since at the end of December only 54,300 of the mode B1 places were occupied. It is too early to say how many current sponsors will be affected by this change.