HC Deb 27 October 1997 vol 299 cc682-3W
Mr. Hancock

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer of 25 July,Official Report, columns 768–69, on training and enterprise councils, how many starts were made for the two categories in each TEC area in each of the last three years. [12302]

Dr. Howells

Information for(a) the proportion endorsed as having special training needs on entering youth training, and (b) the proportion reporting that they had a disability on entering training for work, for each TEC area in England is given in the following tables.

align="center">Proportion of starts with disabilities/special training needs on Youth Training and Training for Work
align="right">Per cent.
1994–95 1995–96 1996–97
YT1 TfW2 YT1 TfW2 YT1 TfW2
Bedfordshire 19 11 17 15 9 24
CAMBSTEC 30 19 15 17 16 24
North Derbyshire 32 17 25 18 27 27
South Derbyshire 23 15 21 16 19 18
Leicestershire 3 18 2 17 2 32
Lincolnshire 18 20 21 16 15 23
Norfolk and Waveney 23 9 20 18 22 25
Northamptonshire 24 20 24 26 22 26
Greater Nottingham 19 14 17 18 16 23
North Nottingham 16 14 19 14 20 26
Greater Peterborough 23 13 16 24 17 23
Suffolk 12 16 12 19 8 27
Co. Durham 33 20 32 15 34 19
Northumberland 27 17 27 18 23 19
Teesside 30 11 31 10 31 14
Tyneside 29 11 25 14 24 17
Sunderland City 37 76 31 71 26 18
Barnsley/Doncaster 24 9 26 13 20 18
Bradford and District 28 18 27 15 24 17
Calderdale and Kirklees 20 15 22 16 23 20
Humberside 25 14 23 14 28 18
Leeds 20 17 14 16 27 25
Rotherham 27 20 14 17 19 24
Sheffield 27 12 19 14 18 20
Wakefield 22 16 29 23 18 31
North Yorkshire 16 20 28 23 36 24
Bolton/Bury 17 18 19 15 16 17
NORMIDTEC 27 11 26 14 23 15
South and East Cheshire 39 18 15 17 12 20
Cumbria 29 15 25 17 29 17
ELTEC 16 15 16 18 26 23
LAWTEC 19 19 22 15 30 22
Manchester 18 15 17 16 18 18
Merseyside 33 11 38 11 32 13
Oldham 31 16 28 13 27 14
Rochdale 31 15 23 18 28 19
St. Helens 34 7 26 9 26 13
Stockport and High Peak 15 19 12 15 12 19
METROTEC(Wigan) 20 14 17 14 28 14
CEWTEC 14 11 13 13 16 17
Birmingham 20 19 15 11 12 16
Central England 21 17 14 23 13 32
Coventry and Warwick 23 16 23 16 22 23
Dudley 7 14 10 16 10 21
HAWTEC (Hereford and Worcester) 21 20 18 20 12 29
Sandwell 16 15 15 16 15 17
Shropshire 21 21 18 19 17 25
Staffordshire 17 15 16 13 20 20
Walsall 7 11 6 16 11 24
Wolverhampton 16 9 13 11 16 17
WESTEC 19 12 14 13 13 25
Devon and Cornwall n/a 17 n/a 22 n/a 25
Dorset 23 14 24 16 24 22

align="center">Proportion of starts with disabilities/special training needs on Youth Training and Training for Work
align="right">Per cent.
1994–95 1995–96 1996–97
YT1 TfW2 YT1 TfW2 YT1 TfW2
Gloucester 10 19 9 22 9 28
Somerset 21 17 24 22 28 23
Wiltshire 14 18 12 21 9 30
Essex 7 11 7 17 7 16
Hampshire 16 12 20 14 20 19
Heart of England 9 12 10 13 11 17
Hertfordshire 16 13 9 16 7 22
Wight Training and Enterprise 26 15 26 9 26 29
Kent 11 16 10 19 13 22
Milton Keynes 22 17 18 18 18 34
Surrey 14 11 11 17 8 22
Sussex 10 12 6 18 5 21
Thames Valley 11 14 7 10 9 9
AZTEC 15 7 13 11 10 14
North London 17 12 22 7 25 9
North West London 21 9 16 7 17 11
CILNTEC 34 5 28 8 31 20
CENTEC 35 5 41 7 37 11
London East 24 8 22 10 18 16
SOLOTEC 24 12 23 13 24 17
West London 31 11 14 14 15 15
South Thames 4 6 47 50 0 0
CENTEC (South Thames) 29 12 43 8 60 17
SOLOTEC (South Thames) 10 4 20 9 n/a n/a
CENTRIC n/a n/a 9 0 1 10
England 24 15 22 16 23 19

Notes:

1. Those endorsed as having special training needs on entering Work Based Training for Young People.

2. All people with disabilities entering Training for Work.

Source:

YT/TfW Trainee databases.