§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the total amount of money spent on work-related Government training schemes in each of the years 1983 to 1988 inclusive.
Government work related training Total expenditure in Scotland by programme or scheme £ million 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 Adult Training (including TOPS in 1984–85) n/a 24.6 17.0 21.0 20.1 12.4 New Job Training Scheme (scheme ended August 1988) — — — n/a 2.5 2.1 Employment Training — — — — — 46.8 Community Programme n/a 70.5 88.3 103.7 138.6 74.5 Voluntary Projects Programme n/a 0.9 1.1 0.9 0.9 0.8 Youth Training Scheme n/a 75.1 78.0 83.9 93.4 102.7 Notes:
n/a—Not available.
The figures given in the table are all provisional and rounded to the nearest £0.1 million. Expenditure was not disaggregated to a Scottish level until 1984–85.