§ Mr. Tony Lloydasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will tabulate for each Greater Manchester district authority area the number of youth training scheme projects in mode A and mode B and the number of trainees.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe information requested is given in the table:
Local Authority Mode A Mode B Number of Projects Number of Trainess Number of Projects Number of Trainees Manchester 47 1,397 32 1,030 Salford 33 566 19 681 Trafford 13 621 9 342 Oldham 16 819 4 281 Tameside 19 712 18 300 Stockport 34 1,109 4 94 Bolton 27 1,045 10 215 Bury 16 542 4 80 Rochdale 11 560 9 383 Wigan 17 1,119 9 498 Notes:
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- i) Figures given refer to the end of December.
- ii) Figures exclude centrally-negotiated large companies schemes. At the end of December there were 2,461 young people in training on 313 schemes with these large companies in Greater Manchester.
§ Mr. Tony Lloydasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will tabulate, for the local government wards of the Stretford constituency, the number of youth training scheme projects in mode A and mode B and the number of trainees.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonI regret that this information is not available.
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many private agencies are handling Manpower Services Commission youth training scheme contracts; how these are monitored; and if he is satisfied that these private agencies are properly vetted and their competence is adequately monitored.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe figure requested is not held centrally. However, it is clear that the places provided by private training organisations constitute a relatively small but useful part of the youth training scheme. All programmes under the youth training scheme are regularly assessed against the same standards.