§ Mrs Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East on 1 December, Official Report, column 83, if there has been any revision of the estimate of 15, 900 craft and technical apprentices 175W expected to be recruited by firms in scope to the engineering industry training board in the training year 1981–82.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonYes. The total number of craft and technical apprentices now expected to be recruited by firms in scope to the engineering industry training board in the training year 1981–82 is 14, 300.
§ Mrs Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to his reply of 1 December to the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East, Official Report, column 83, how many craft and technical apprentices will be recruited by firms in conjunction with the engineering industry training board in the current training year; and how many of these will be supported from Manpower Services Commission funds.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonOf the toatal of 14, 300 craft and technical apprentices now expected to be recruited to the industry in the current training year, 10, 300 are expected to be recruited directly by firms in scope to the board without support from public funds. A further 4, 000 apprentices will be recruited directly by the board under
Closures and redundancies reported as due to occur May 1979 to December 1981 (inclusive)* Pending, from January 1982 Redundancies Closures Closures Number of establishments Number of employees involved Number of establishments Number of employees involved Wolverhampton travel-to-work area 10, 885 29 1, 697 — — West Midlands 141, 239 511 31, 653 5 1, 624 *Including provisional figures for November and December 1981