§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many training places have been made available by each training and enterprise council in Wales for special needs trainees in each of the last three years.
§ Sir Wyn RobertsTECs have not yet been in existence for three years and comparable information is only available by TEC for the 1991–92 financial year.
The information available is for numbers of those with special needs starting training rather than numbers of training places, and is provided in the following table.
Special training needs starts TEC 1991–92 Gwent 849 Mid Glamorgan 933 North East Wales 214 North West Wales 727 Powys 299 South Glamorgan 680 West Wales 2,660
§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much money has been allocated for employment training special needs programmes by each training and enterprise council in Wales in each of the last three years.
§ Sir Wyn RobertsThe information requested is not available because within the overall unit price for employment training negotiated with training and enterprise councils, they are required to ensure that suitable high quality training is available for all trainees who are shown by assessment to have disabilities or other significant personal disadvantages which give rise to special training needs.
§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what has been the average unit cost per month of training young people on youth training schemes in Wales in each of the last five years.
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§ Sir Wyn RobertsThe information requested is set out in the table.
Youth training Average unit cost per training month Financial year Cost £ per month 11988–89 186 11989–90 185 11990–91 217 11991–92 229 21992–93 213 1 Outturn. 2 Planned.