§ Ms. Harmanasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list all those projects currently in receipt of European social fund money in the Greater London area.
§ Mr. Gummer[pursuant to his reply, 21 November 1983]: Britain benefits considerably from the European social fund, but the bulk of allocations are in respect of national employment and training schemes and cannot be broken down on a regional basis. In 1982 the Manpower Services Commission was allocated £167, 958, 514 for all its eligible training programmes, which was 65.3 per cent. of the total allocation for the United Kingdom. The following list shows those projects that are currently in receipt of ESF aid in the Greater London area and relates to schemes run by local authorities, voluntary bodies and private firms. The years referred to are those in which the allocation was awarded. Some schemes have a three-year duration.
132Winspectorate staff for May 1979 and at the latest date available for each of the separate geographical regions covered by the inspectorate.
§ Mr. GummerStaffing figures for each wages inspectorate Division are not readily available for May 1979. The following table shows the figures requested at September 1979 and September 1983.
The European Commission will shortly announce a further, final, set of decisions on 1983 allocations which may include further assistance for schemes in the Greater London area.
1981
- Programme to facilitate transfer of 173 dockers from old Port of London to new docks at Tilbury.
- Port of London Authority.
1982
- Two programmes of vocational training for 150 women under the age of 25 in non-traditional occupations.
- London borough of Southwark.
- Vocational training of 60 unemployed women over the age of 25 for jobs where women are traditionally under-represented. London borough of Southwark.
- Demonstration project to train 50 physically handicapped people for employment in the open labour market.
- London borough of Southwark.
- Pilot scheme for the provision of technical and management skills for a training project at Stonebridge bus depot.
- London borough of Brent.
1983
- Skills training for 30 women under the age of 18 as engineering technicians.
- Greater London council.
- Skills training for 20 women under the age of 25 in electronics.
- Polytechnic of the South Bank.
- Vocational training for 60 women over the age of 25 in basic technical skills.
- London borough of Southwark.
- Training for 148 women over the age of 25 in non-traditional fields and in office skills.
- Greater London council (Charlton training consortium).
- Skills training for 60 women over the age of 25 in building skills.
- South Bank builders.
- Vocational training for 90 women over the age of 25 in microelectronics and technology and craft skills.
133 - Haringey women's training and education centre.
- Skills training for 48 women over the age of 25 in carpentry. Lambeth women's workshop.
- Demonstration programme for the training of 96 disabled people under the European Communities network of local district projects.
- London borough of Lambeth.
- Language training of 96 adult migrant workers.
- Camden Committee for community relations.
- Demonstration project of skilled training and work experience of 11 handicapped people.
- Lady Margaret hall settlement.
- Vocational training and retraining for 200 people within a framework of a restructuring programme for the clothing industry.
- Tower Hamlets advanced training forum.
- Training and retraining 560 existing employees in new technology to avoid the need for redundancy.
- Babcock Power Ltd.