§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons have(a) joined and (b) dropped out from the employment training programme each month since the scheme began, both in each region and nationally.
§ Mr. NichollsThe information requested is given in the table. The number of employment training leavers includes early leavers and those who have completed their training. The figure is estimated and is only available nationally.
leaving employment training is not currently available but it will be obtained from follow up surveys. The first results should be available by the end of the year.
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Employment training-Stars and leavers Table 1 Monthly totals: September 1988 to January 1989 Great Britain Starts Leavers1 September 21,462 1,000 October 31,083 5,000 November 35,202 7,000 December 28,867 7,000 January 36,698 2— 1 The leavers figures are estimated and relate to trainees who were not transferred from previous programmes. 2 Leavers figures for January are not yet available.
Area September October November December January West London 165 258 372 198 302 East London 268 382 432 329 488 South London 116 202 216 179 404 Inner London North 820 1,159 948 712 1,314 Inner London South 404 491 540 454 639 Avon 156 329 385 339 437 Devon and Cornwall 494 783 1,003 833 1,178 Somerset and Dorset 193 355 326 363 259 Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 232 257 309 207 274 Birmingham and Solihull 465 1,190 1,237 1,051 1,377 Coventry and Warwickshire 334 378 448 320 423 Dudley and Sandwell 480 521 444 436 705 The Marches 318 419 448 489 558 Staffordshire 383 589 640 552 681 Wolverhampton and Walsall 490 636 612 455 576 Derbyshire 358 594 620 386 540 Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire 212 373 376 286 382 Leicestershire and Northants 274 472 465 358 534 Nottingham 356 643 659 501 762 Norfolk and Suffolk 403 460 544 466 500 Lincolnshire 168 186 196 205 232 Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees 454 706 1,135 873 877 Sheffield and Rotherham 679 1,187 1,310 1,079 1.268 Wakefield, Barnsley and Doncaster 513 788 1,123 867 1,188 Humberside 975 1,127 949 828 1,060 Leeds/North Yorkshire 353 715 992 755 1,059 Manchester East 363 596 660 426 477 Manchester Central 545 738 899 608 828 Manchester North 323 541 646 523 602 Cheshire 463 897 697 451 605 Lancashire 599 891 882 797 960 Merseyside 619 1,137 1,477 1,132 1,694 Cumbria 117 162 283 208 290 North Tyne 353 455 707 613 789 South Tyne 706 1,003 997 884 977 Durham 618 857 804 596 797 Cleveland 718 904 1,138 802 1,074 Wrexham 277 430 491 520 606 Swansea 479 586 945 698 819 Cardiff 432 683 885 687 1,017 Gwent 193 268 329 267 458 Central and Fife 344 337 497 478 514 Grampian and Tayside 398 382 617 380 453 Lothian and Borders 394 683 787 679 601 Glasgow City 476 574 704 740 733 Renfrew, Dumbarton and Argyll 153 286 417 552 392 Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway 306 303 373 442 961 Lanarkshire 214 483 576 537 452 Highlands and Islands 46 72 84 86 121 NoteFigures may not tally with those previously published due to retrospective adjustments at area level.