§ Mr. Pardoeasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give details of the number of Government retraining schemes in Cornwall, and estimates of changes in the next five years.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerI am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that under the Training Opportunities Scheme (TOPS) there are six courses available in skillcentres in Cornwall, 24 in colleges of further education and two in employers' establishments. The numbers at present in training are 95, 167 and 9 respectively. TOPS is a nation-wide scheme and offers training in some 600 different courses. A Cornish applicant can be accepted for any course provided he or she is prepared to go into lodgings if the course is beyond daily travelling distance. A lodging allowance would be paid in such a case. The Training Ser-
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Number of persons killed Rate per 100,000 manshifts Number of serious or reportable injuries* Rate per 100,000 manshifts Total number of injuries † Rate per 100,000 manshifts Great Britain Underground … 37 0.10 417 1.16 44,198 124.59 Surface … … 11 0.09 80 0.62 5,059 39.59 Total … … 48 0.10 497 1.02 49,257 102.08 Scotland Underground … 3 0.06 49 1.02 Not available Surface … … — — 9 0.19 Not available Total … … 3 0.06 58 1.22 * Includes clerks and salaried persons at the mines. † Accidents involving absence for more than 3 days. the day of the count, an analysis of their duration of unemployment up till then is compiled at quarterly intervals.
The figures for April 1974, July 1974 and October 1974 are set out in the following tables. In January 1974 the normal figures were not collected due to the emergency situation.
vices Agency plans to expand TOPS considerably over the next five years and Cornwall will share in this expansion of training facilities.