Industrial Rehabilitation

HC Deb 10 April 1975 vol 889 cc459-60W

Mr. Cordle

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish the locations of all existing and planned in-industrial rehabilitation units in England and Wales.

Mr. John Fraser

I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that the location of existing employment rehabilitation centres—formerly known as industrial rehabilitation units—in England and Wales is as follows:

Billingham.	Leicester.
Birmingham.	Liverpool.
Bristol.	Long Eaton.
Cardiff.	Manchester.
Coventry.	Perivale.
Egham.	Plymouth.
Felling.	Portsmouth.
Garston Manor, near Watford.	Port Talbot
	Sheffield.
Hull.	Stoke-on-Trent.
Killingworth.	Waddon, near
Leeds.	Croydon.

For the future, firm plans have been made by the Employment Service Agency for a large centre at Preston to provide up-to-date facilities, including residential accommodation, to serve the northern half of the country. A proposal for a new centre to provide facilities for East London will be given early priority when a suitable site is found. Speculative provision has been made for possible future development of smaller centres closely linked with medical rehabilitation services, but no decisions have yet been made on the organisation or location of any such developments.

Mr. Cordle

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what plans he has to set up an industrial rehabilitation unit in the Bournemouth area.

Mr. John Fraser

The plans of the Employment Service Agency approved by the Manpower Services Commission do not include setting up an employment rehabilitation centre in the Bournemouth area.

The agency is in consultation with the Department of Health and Social Security about a number of possible locations in the country for any future developments in the form of smaller centres closely linked with medical rehabilitation services, but no decisions have yet been made about the organisation or location of any such developments.

The Employment Service Agency is aware of representations which have been made for provision of facilities in the Bournemouth area and will bear them in mind.