Training Programmes (Hansard, 15 May 1991)

§ Mr. Nellist
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the main training programmes and numbers involved for each of the last three years on offer to people in Coventry; how that is planned to change in the current financial year; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Jackson
[holding answer 14 May 1991]: It is not possible to provide information solely for the Coventry area.
The table shows the main training programmes on offer in the Coventry and Warwickshire area for each of the last three years and the numbers involved.
Coventry and Warwickshire training and enterprise council (TEC) have funds available to take forward initiatives that will provide a full range of training opportunities for both employed and unemployed, including those seeking to enter self-employment in the Coventry and Warwickshire area.
(2) what proportion of United Kingdom operationally deployed nuclear weapons are equipped with enhanced nuclear detonation safety devices;
(3) what proportion of United Kingdom operationally deployed nuclear weapons are equipped with fire-resistant pits.

§ Mr. Redmond
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make it his policy that the safety standard required for any United Kingdom nuclear 215W warhead design, under any circumstances, involved in an accidental nuclear explosion with a yield equivalent to 41b of TNT, should be less than one-in-a-million.

§ Mr. Archie Hamilton
It has been the policy of successive Governments not to disclose information relating to United Kingdom nuclear weapon design.

§ Mr. Redmond
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what consideration the Nuclear Weapons Safety Panel has given to the United States House of Representatives December 1990 "Report of the Panel on Nuclear Weapons Safety of the Committee on the Armed Services".

§ Mr. McFall
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what consideration he has given to the implications for United Kingdom operationally deployed nuclear weapons of the United States House of Representatives December 1990 "Report of the Panel on Nuclear Weapons Safety of the Committee on Armed Services";
(2) what consideration the Nuclear Weapons Safety Panel has given to the United States House of Representatives December 1990 "Report of the Panel on Nuclear Weapons Safety of the Committee on the Armed Services".

§ Mr. Archie Hamilton
Ministry of Defence officials and members of the Nuclear Weapons Safety Committee have studied this report.