§ Mr. Winnickasked the Paymaster General if he will give the total number of those on all kinds of community 845W schemes and YTS in (a) the west midlands region (b) the black country area of the west midlands and (c) the Walsall travel-to-work area.
§ Mr. Lee[pursuant to his reply, 19 February 1987]: The most recent figures for December show that the total numbers of people on the community programme, community industry and the voluntary projects programme were as follows:
West Midlands Black1 Country Walsall2 Wolverhampton Community Programme 27,152 8,231 4,502 Voluntary Projects Programme 1,224 232 97 Community Industry 278 — — TOTAL 28,654 8,463 4,599 In January the numbers on YTS were 44,942 13,804 2,864 1 The black country figures include Dudley, Sandwell, Wolverhampton and Walsall. 2 It is not possible to give figures for the Walsall travel-to-work area. The figures given are for Walsall and Wolverhampton.