§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many employment training places in each Training Agency area have been filled with starts with training managers, and what percentage that is in each case of total employment training places contracted in each Training Agency area.
§ Mr. NichollsThe information requested is given in the following table:
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Employment training places Area office Filled places at 17 February Filled places as a percentage of total contracted places in December South East Region Berkshire and Oxfordshire 995 54.3 Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire 1,357 53.2 Essex 1,380 38.4 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 1,900 59.0 Kent 1,987 52.4 Surrey 370 32.0 Sussex 1,290 42.7 London Region Inner London North 4,951 67.7 Inner London South 2,480 52.3 London East 2,001 69.2 London North 2,881 70.0 London South 1,259 73.0 London West 1,051 72.0 South West Region Avon 1,858 48.0 Devon and Cornwall 5,035 71.0 Dorset and Somerset 1,612 54.0 Gloucester and Wiltshire 1,172 40.0 West Midlands Region Birmingham and Solihull 5,406 50.1 Coventry and Warwickshire 1,972 42.4 Dudley and Sandwell 2,248 46.0 Staffordshire 2,945 60.0 The Marches, Hereford/Worcester 2,181 52.1 Wolverhampton and Walsall 2,532 47.0 East Midlands and Eastern Region Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire 1,438 70.0 Derbyshire 2,247 51.1 Leicestershire and Northamptonshire 2,287 52.0 Lincolnshire 1,114 55.0 Norfolk and Suffolk 2,456 59.5 Nottinghamshire 2,619 48.0 Yorkshire and Humberside Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees 3,825 61.0 Humberside 4,576 79.1 North Yorkshire and Leeds 3,558 53.5 Sheffield and Rotherham 4,768 59.0 Wakefield, Doncaster and Barnsley 4,789 70.0
Area office Filled places at 17 February Filled places as a percentage of total contracted places in December North West Region Cheshire 2,570 51.0 Cumbria 1,173 54.1 Lancashire 3,872 54.0 Central Manchester 3,260 35.2 Greater Manchester North 2,236 34.5 Greater Manchester East 2,105 54.0 Merseyside 6,182 37.4 Northern Region Cleveland 4,900 51.1 County Durham 3,955 56.0 Northumberland, North Tyneside and Newcastle 3,229 43.0 Sunderland, South Tyneside and Gateshead 4,867 49.4 Wales Dyfed and West Glamorgan 3,300 52.1 Gwent 1,676 43.0 Gwynedd, Clywd and Powys 2,420 45.0 Mid and South Glamorgan 3,845 47.0 Scotland Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway 2,183 47.0 Central and Fife 2,278 47.0 Glasgow City 3,279 33.3 Grampian and Tayside 2,006 46.0 Highlands and Islands 597 35.1 Lanarkshire 1,847 39.1 Lothian and Borders 2,686 51.1 Renfrew, Dumbarton and Argyll 1,988 33.1