HC Deb 28 February 1995 vol 255 cc555-6W
Ms Harman

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many women are currently on Government training schemes by(a) training scheme and (b) individual TEC; and what is the overall figure as a percentage of the overall number of trainees on Government training schemes.

Mr. Paice

The information requested is given in the following table. The information covers those leaving youth training and training for work between April and September 1994. As these figures are estimated from incomplete information, it is possible only to give the percentage of women leavers and not the actual numbers.

April 1994 to September 1994
England and Wales and TECs Percentage of youth training leavers who were female Percentage of training for work leavers who were female
England and Wales 42 30
Bedfordshire TEC 41 29
Central and South
Cambridgeshire TEC 39 32
North Derbyshire TEC 37 20
South Derbyshire TEC 47 37
Leicestershire TEC 43 29
Lincolnshire TEC 43 39
Norfolk and Waveney TEC 38 28
Northamptonshire TEC 47 30
Greater Nottingham TEC 41 23
North Nottinghamshire TEC 46 25
Greater Peterborough TEC 38 32
Suffolk TEC 45 31
County Durham TEC 38 23
Northumberland TEC 43 34
Teeside TEC 40 26
Tyneside TEC 39 25
Wearside TEC n/a 25
Barnsley and Doncaster TEC 42 25
Bradford TEC 40 22
Calderdale—Kirklees 42 35
Humberside TEC 38 31
Leeds TEC 43 36
Rotherham TEC 43 22
Sheffield TEC 43 25
Wakefield TEC 40 16
North Yorkshire TEC 41 33
Bolton—Bury TEC 45 27
North Chesire TEC 46 33
South and East Chesire TEC 32 30
Cumbria TEC 41 36
East Lancashire TEC 40 32
West Lancashire TEC 42 28
Central Manchester TEC 42 24
Merseyside TEC n/a 31
Oldham TEC 48 31
Rochdale TEC 43 26
St. Helens TEC 39 25
Stockport—High Peak n/a n/a
Wigan TEC 45 27
Wirral—Chester TEC 45 37
Birmingham TEC n/a n/a
April 1994 to September 1994
England and Wales and TECs Percentage of youth training leavers who were female Percentage of training for work leavers who were female
Central England TEC 46 38
Coventry—Warwickshire TEC 43 30
Dudley TEC 45 22
Hereford—Worcestershire TEC 40 32
Sandwell TEC 45 28
Shropshire TEC 37 37
Staffordshire TEC 42 24
Walsall TEC 53 30
Wolverhampton TEC 46 36
Mid Glamorgan TEC 32 24
South Glamorgan TEC n/a n/a
Gwent TEC 40 29
Powys TEC 39 34
North East Wales TEC 42 28
North West Wales TEC 44 34
West Wales TEC 34 27
Avon TEC 46 36
Devon—Cornwall TEC n/a 27
Dorset TEC 40 26
Gloucester TEC 42 25
Somerset TEC 39 28
Wiltshire TEC 39 31
Essex TEC 44 35
Hampshire TEC 40 31
Heart of England TEC 36 36
Hertfordshire TEC 36 32
Isle of Wight TEC 35 25
Kent TEC 44 31
Milton Keynes TEC 47 32
Surrey TEC 41 29
Sussex TEC 45 30
Thames Valley TEC 43 33
Aztec TEC 50 41
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey 42 42
Brent, Harrow TEC 35 43
Islington, Hackney TEC n/a n/a
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 40 41
London East TEC 41 38
South London TEC 43 46
West London TEC 43 43
South Thames TEC n/a n/a

Source:

YT and TFW national leavers certificate databases.

Notes:

n/a—Not available due to low number of processed returns.

Ms Harman

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the expenditure on women on training programmes by(a) training schemes and (b) individual TEC; and what is the figure as a percentage of overall expenditure on training.

Mr. Paice

The information requested is not available.