§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on British Oxygen's refusal to continue to participate in employment training.
§ Mr. Nicholls[holding answer 10 November 1989]British Oxygen Company (BOC) is still participating in employment training by providing high-level training under the higher technical national training (HTNT) arrangements. The effect of BOC's decision not to renew its contract as a training manager under ET is the loss of only 30 places, none of which was filled at the time of the withdrawal, and which will be made good by increasing places with other providers in the area.
§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the most recent details of(a) the number of filled places on the 23 large company employment training schemes listed in the Official Report, 6 July, column 275, (b) any changes to the maximum number of places allocated for each of these schemes and (c) which of those schemes have since withdrawn from employment training.
§ Mr. NichollsThe following table updates to 29 September 1989 the details of the 23 large company employment training schemes listed in theOfficial Report, 6 July, column 275.
The "No. of places allocated" column shows, in brackets, the changes to the figures from 26 May 1989, as listed in the Official Report.
None of the schemes listed has withdrawn from employment training.
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Company Number of places allocated at 29 September 1989 Places filled at 29 September 1989 J. Jarvis and Sons 1,310 (-1,186) 1,160 J. Laing Construction 2,181 (+3) 1,554 Henry Boot Construction 495 (-74) 222 Invicta Training (Grand Metropolitan Training) 1,105 (+390) 147 Martin James 650 (+10) 552 Geo. Wimpey 437 (-110) 404 Mowlem 305 (-100) 128 Comet PLC 354 (-20) 51 Pilkington 230 (-40) 181 Ferranti 152 (-63) 92 Mill Garages Ltd. 170 — 173 Tower Radio Ltd. 130 (-120) 93 Portals Engineering Ltd. 250 — 241 Marley Extrusions Ltd. 200 — Nil Ryder Ltd. 165 (+15) 194 Team Greyfriars Ltd. 380 (+180) 155 John Lawrence Group 100 (-50) 37 ICI 100 — 83 Sumlock Business Service 60 (-30) 36 R and D Associates 125 — 139 Simon Engineering 110 — 63 Coastline Ltd. 70 — 114 Strategic Marketing (International Ltd.) 100 — 88