§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many apprenticeship places were provided by companies in the (a) engineering, (b) construction, (c) road transport and (d) other industrial sectors for each year since 1970; and how many places he estimates will be provided for this year.
§ Mr. Peter Morrison[pursuant to his reply, 7 April 1981, c. 258]: Comprehensive statistics on the number of apprentices recruited by employers are not available. However, some industry training boards collect from firms within their scope statistics of recruitment into apprenticeships and other forms of long term training; and these details are provided by training year in the following table.
Period Numbers who completed training Numbers placed in employment using their skills at the end of training June–December 1977 (6 months) 38 24 January–December 1978 100 88 January–December 1979 92 84 January–September 1980 (9 months) 105 83 Figures are available only from June 1977. Since April 1979 questionnaires have been sent to all trainees three months after completing their training and, for the period April 1979 to September 1980, 71 per cent. of the questionnaires returned in respect of bricklayers trained in the West Midlands and 86 per cent. in respect of carpenters and joiners showed them to be working and using the skills taught on their courses.
Figures are not available for the percentage of trainees who remained hi the building industry after a year.