§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many child minder allowances have been granted to lone parent ET participants since September 1988; and how many were granted during the most recently available monthly period, for each training agency area.
§ Mr. NichollsInformation about the number of lone parents on employment training receiving child care payments before April 1989 is not available. The number of lone parents receiving child care payments during April is given in table 1.
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Table 1 Employment Training Number of lone parents receiving child care payments during April 1989 Training Agency area Lone parents South East region Berkshire and Oxfordshire 49 Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire 47 Essex 47 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 43 Kent 35 Surrey 22 Sussex 87 London region Inner London North 131 Inner London South 109 London East 92 London North 107 London South 74 London West 27 South West region Avon 123 Devon and Cornwall 121 Dorset and Somerset 35
Training Agency area Lone parents Gloucester and Wiltshire 46 West Midlands region Birmingham and Solihull 229 Coventry and Warwickshire 55 Dudley and Sandwell 45 Staffordshire 48 The Marches, Hereford/Worcester 55 Wolverhampton and Walsall 16 East Midlands and Eastern region Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire 40 Derbyshire 17 Leicester and Northamptonshire 84 Lincolnshire 19 Norfolk and Suffolk 47 Nottinghamshire 87 Yorkshire and Humberside region Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees 111 Humberside 71 North Yorkshire and Leeds 91 Sheffield and Rotherham 53 Wakefield, Doncaster and Barnsley 38 North West region Cheshire 45 Cumbria 23 Lancashire 42 Central Manchester 80 Greater Manchester North 46 Greater Manchester East 96 Merseyside 190 Northern region Cleveland 119 County Durham 56 Northumberland, North Tyneside and Newcastle 37 Sunderland, South Tyneside and Gateshead 41 Wales Dyfed and West Glamorgan 58 Gwent 21 Gwynedd, Clwyd and Powys 56 Mid Glamorgan and South Glamorgan 54 Scotland Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway 44 Central and Fife 44 Glasgow City 73 Grampian and Tayside 69 Highlands and Islands 16 Lanarkshire 37 Lothian and Borders 45 Renfrew, Dumbarton and Argyll 21