§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will make a statement on the visit of a Minister from her Department to the area covered by the Barnsley and Doncaster TEC to discuss measures to reduce unemployment in the travel-to-work areas of Doncaster and Mexborough. [34984]
§ Mr. PaiceMy noble Friend the Minister of State undertook the most recent visit of a Minister from the Department to the area covered by the Barnsley and Doncaster training and enterprise council on 8 May 1996, in his capacity as a sponsor Minister. He visited sites in the Barnsley north-east corridor city challenge area and attended the launch of the Dearne Valley college, at the University of Sheffield. The visit was not specifically to discuss measures to reduce unemployment in the travel to work areas of Doncaster and Mexborough. However, he did meet a representative of the Barnsley and Doncaster TEC during the visit. He will be visiting the Doncaster area again, on 1 July 1996, to hold a reception for excellent, good and improving schools in the Yorkshire and Humberside region identified by Ofsted inspections.