§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the number of catering courses undertaken in Government training centres for each year since 1971, giving a breakdown of the number of male and female workers passing through the centres and details of the numbers who obtained work in the trade on completion of their training.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerThe information is as follows:
Britain are compiled for June each year. The latest available figures relate to June 1972. My Department does not publish forecasts of the future level of employment. Following is the information for June 1968 to June 1972:
Estimated number of employees in employment in Footwear in North-East Lancashire June 1968 … … 7,600 June 1969 … … 7,600 June 1970 … … 7,400 June 1971 (a) … … 7,400 (b) … … 7,200 June 1972 … … 6,800 The figures for June 1971 (b) and 1972 are from the new annual censuses of employment and are not strictly comparable with those for 1971 (a) and earlier dates which are based on counts of national insurance cards.