§ Mr. Fosterasked the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the engineering apprentice intake for each year since 1975–76; and how many engineering apprentices have been made redundant in the past 12 months.
Mr. MorrisonThe numbers of apprentices recruited by firms in scope to the engineering industry training Board are as follows:
Year 1975–76 25,243 1976–77 24,249 1977–78 24,643 1978–79 24,532 1979–80 22,822 1980–81 20,541 1981–82 14,639 The final figure for 1982–83 is not yet available. The board has had reports of 1,361 redundancies among apprentices in the period 9 October 1981 to 8 October 1982.