HC Deb 26 May 1988 vol 134 cc286-7W
Mr. Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the target figure for JTS in Wales in the last financial year, the total number of participants, and the underspend on appropriation.

Mr. Wyn Roberts

Numerical and financial regional targets were not set when new job training schemes started in April 1987, since the pace of expansion of the scheme was to be determined by the quality of training. In Wales up to 12,040 places were contracted by managing agents in the year ending April 1988, during which 4,586 unemployed adults entered the scheme and expenditure by Manpower Services Commission was £2.069 million.