§ Mr. Barry Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list for each industrial training board its headquarters location and the number of staff working at or from that office.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonI will reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
§ Mr. Barry Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list in the Official Report the number of apprenticeships being supported by Government funds in each of the 24 industrial training boards; and how this compares with each of the last five years.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonI am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that the information requested is not yet available. In any event the special measures programmes which ran from 1975–76 to 1978–79 and the current training for skills programme for action have different support criteria so that the figures would not be directly comparable. However I will write to the hon. Member when further information is available.