HC Deb 14 March 1990 vol 169 cc251-2W
Mr. Amos

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what assistance his Department is making available to NGF(90)Ltd., organisers of the Gateshead

Table 1 Establishments covered by wages councils on register—as at January 1989
Wages councils Divisions London South East Eastern South West Midlands North West Yorkshire and Humberside North Scotland Great Britain
Aerated waters 7 14 57 16 111 25 24 22 66 342
Clothing manufacture 3,006 159 306 301 1,282 937 452 214 307 6,964
Boot and shoe repairing 764 255 258 345 373 406 111 70 130 2,878
Button manufacturing 18 4 4 4 18 4 3 1 1 57
Coffin furniture and cerement making 1 — — 2 8 2 5 — 2 20
Cotton waste reclamation — — — — 1 28 8 3 2 42
Flax and hemp — — — 1 — — — 1 6 8
Fur 147 8 8 7 14 28 11 3 36 262

garden festival, for the employment and training of unemployed people during the festival; and if he will snake a statement.

Mr. Eggar

I am making arrangements so that the organisers may employ and train up to 1,140 unemployed people during the festival from public funds. Parliamentary approval to this provision will be sought in a supplementary estimate for the Department of Employment's training and enterprise programmes vole (class VI vote 1). Pending that approval, urgent expenditure estimated at £2.7 million will be met by repayable advances from the Contingencies Fund.