§ Mr. Bryan DaviesTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is his Department's estimate of the number of employers with 200 or more employees in each training and enterprise council area.
§ Mr. OppenheimThe available information relates to individual workplaces, not employers. The number of workplaces in each training and enterprise council area with more than 200 employees at September 1991 is shown in the following table:
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TEC Units Hampshire 364 Heart of England 121 Isle of Wight 14 Kent 308 Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire 60 Surrey 215 Sussex 276 Thames Valley Enterprise 329 Bedfordshire 131 CAMBSTEC 104 Essex 277 Greater Peterborough 71 Hertfordshire 234 Norfolk and Waveney 189 Suffolk 121 Aztec 129 CENTEC 622 CILNTEC 320 London East 239 North London 134 North West London 95 SOLOTEC 223 South Thames 236 West London 276 Avon 251 Devon and Cornwall 222 Dorset 128 Gloucestershire 118 Somerset 92 Wiltshire 162 Birmingham 284 Central England 95 Coventry and Warwickshire 191 Dudley 53 HAWTEC 84 Sandwell 89 Shropshire 85 Staffordshire 216 Walsall 61 Wolverhampton 63 Greater Nottingham 160 Leicestershire 224 Lincolnshire 90 North Derbyshire 66 North Nottinghamshire 95 Northamptonshire 145 South Derbyshire 123 Barnsley and Doncaster 102 Bradford and District 114 Calderdale and Kirklees 120 Humberside 183 Leeds 206 North Yorkshire 138 Rotherham 56 Sheffield 118 Wakefield 78 CEWTEC 100
TEC Units Cumbria 91 ELTEC 126 LAWTEC 184 Merseyside 191 NorMidTEC 121 QUALITEC 37 Bolton and Bury 97 Manchester 348 METROTEC 60 Oldham 45 Rochdale 34 South and East Cheshire 79 Stockport and High Peak 73 County Durham 117 Northumberland 44 Teesside 117 Tyneside 208 Wearside 63 Gwent 91 Mid Glamorgan 123 North East Wales 70 North West Wales 45 Powys 10 South Glamorgan 130 West Wales 124 The table excludes Agriculture and Horticulture (Standard Industrial Classification 80, Activity Heading 0100).