§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment what extra funds and staff will be forthcoming in North Staffordshire to enable the local special programmes area board to provide sufficient places to meet the Government's undertakings under the youth opportunities programme.
§ Mr. Peter Morrison[pursuant to his reply, 4 February 1981]: The Wolverhampton area board, which covers North Staffordshire, has no budget of its own, in common with all others in Great Britain.
Area boards throughout the country have been asked to prepare plans which provide sufficient youth opportunity places to meet the Government's undertakings. Those plans have not yet been finalised.
Nationally about 1,000 additional staff are being provided before the end of the 1981–82 financial year for