§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment what facilities are available in the Wolverhampton area for training and retraining; and what numbers can be accommodated.
§ Mr. Jim LesterI shall reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many young persons aged 18 and under in (a) Wolverhampton and (b) the West Midlands have never had a job; and will he give figures for the latest convenient date and comparable figures for 1979.
§ Mr. Jim LesterThe following table gives the numbers of registered unemployed young people aged 18 years and under, in the Wolverhampton employment office area and the West Midlands region who, at 11 October 1979 and 9 October 1980, had not been in employment since completing full-time education.
11 October 9 October 1979 1980 Wolverhampton employment office 1,175 2,089 West Midlands region 9,400 21,408
Employment Offices Careers Offices Agriculture, forestry, fishing … … … … … — 1 Food, drink and tobacco … … … … … 1 — Chemicals and allied industries … … … … … 2 1 Metal manufacture … … … … … … — 1 Mechanical engineering … … … … … … 4 — Electrical engineering … … … … … … 2 6 Vehicles … … … … … … … … 3 28 Metal goods not elswhere specified … … … … 4 3 Leather, leather goods and fur … … … … … 1 — Timber, furniture, etc. … … … … … … 1 — Construction … … … … … … … 12 4 Transport and communication … … … … … 2 — Distributive trades … … … … … … … 16 2 Insurance, banking, finance and business services … … 9 7 Professional and scientific services … … … … 17 1 Miscellaneous services … … … … … … 58 4 Public administration and defence … … … … 28 — Total, All industries and services … … … 160 58
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were employed in manufacturing industry in (a) the Wolverhampton travelto-work area and (b) the West Midlands in May 1979; and what is the latest available figure.
§ Mr. Jim LesterAt June 1977, the latest date for which estimates for local
182WWork experience and training opportunities will be available for these young people under the youth opportunities programme, which the Secretary of State announced on 14 February would be expanded this year in order to admit over a quarter of a million young people throughout the country by next March.
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many vancancies are registered for jobs in the Wolverhampton area; and in what categories.
§ Mr. Jim LesterThe following table gives the number of notified vacancies remaining unfilled in the Wolverhampton employment office area, analysed by order of the standard industrial classification 1968, at 14 August 1980, the latest date for which this information is available.
The vacancy figures relate only to those notified to employment offices and careers offices; vacancies notified to employment offices are estimated to be about one third of all vacancies in the country as a whole. Because of possible duplication the figures for employment offices and careers offices should not be added together.
areas are available, there were 63,706 employees in employment in manufacturing industries in the Wolverhampton travel-to-work area.
For the West Midlands region, it is provisionally estimated that the numbers of employees in employment in manufacturing industries at June 1979 and 183W June 1980 were 967,000 and 916,000 respectively.