HC Deb 21 February 1984 vol 54 cc473-4W
Mr. Peter Bruinvels

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many area manpower boards there are; if he will list them; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Peter Morrison

There are 54 area manpower boards. The full list is as follows:

Scotland
Highlands and Islands Northern
Grampian and Tayside Northumberland, North Tyneside and Newcastle
Central and Fife
Lothian and Borders Sunderland, South Tyneside and Gateshead
Glasgow City
Dumbarton, Argyll and Renfrewshire Durham
Cleveland
Lanarkshire
Ayrshire Yorkshire and Humberside
Dumfries and Galloway North Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
Wales South Yorkshire
Gwynedd Humberside
Clwyd and Powys
Dyfed and West Glamorgan North West
Mid and South Glamorgan Greater Manchester
Gwent Cheshire
Cumbria Hertfordshire
Lancashire Essex
Merseyside Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Midlands Kent
Birmingham and Solihull Norfolk and Suffolk
Coventry and Warwickshire Surrey
Derbyshire, including High East and West Sussex
Peak
Dudley and Sandwell London
Leicestershire and London North (Brent,
Northamptonshire Harrow, Westminster,
Lincolnshire Camden, Barnet, Haringey
Nottinghamshire and Enfield)
Shropshire, Hereford and London West (Hillingdon,
Worcester Ealing, Hounslow,
Staffordshire Hammersmith, Kensington
Wolverhampton and Walsall and Chelsea, Richmond,
Kingston, Merton, Sutton
South West and Wandsworth)
Avon London North East
Cornwall and Devon (Islington, City, Hackney,
Dorset and Somerset Tower Hamlets, Waltham
Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Forest, Newham, Redbridge,
Barking and Havering)
South East London South East
Bedfordshire and (Lambeth, Southwark,
Cambridgeshire Lewisham, Greenwich,
Berkshire and Oxfordshire Bexley, Bromley and
Buckinghamshire and Croydon)

Mr. Peter Bruinvels

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will consider granting Leicestershire its own area manpower board.

Mr. Peter Morrison

Area manpower boards are appointed by the Manpower Services Commission to advise it on the operation of its programmes at local level. The Government's recent White Paper "Training for Jobs" indicates that the commission has been asked to consider, consult and report to the Government on appropriate machinery at both national and local level for carrying out its enhanced responsibilities. That review will cover area manpower boards.