§ Mr. Alec Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity how many adult workers have been trained or retrained in Wales in each year since 1963 by Government training centres or on-job training schemes.
§ Mr. DellThe number of adults who have completed courses at Government training centres in Wales since 1963 are as follows:
1963 … … … … 199 1964 … … … … 176 1965 … … … … 490 1966 … … … … 737 1967 … … … … 874 1968 … … … … 916 1969 (first 9 months) … … 678 There are no available statistics of adults trained on-the-job in Wales; but during the last two years the following numbers of workers have been trained in industry with the help of the Government training grants which are available to new and expanding firms in the Welsh Development Area:
12 months ended September 1968 5,022 12 months ended September 1969 9,395