§ Mr. LlwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many(a) apprenticeships and (b) trainee posts in manufacturing industry were available in Wales in each year from 1979 onwards.
§ Sir Wyn RobertsEstimates from the Employment Department's short-term employment surveys are given in the table. Welsh data from this source are available only from 1981 up to 1990 after which this inquiry was discontinued. The labour force survey sample in Wales does not allow for reliable estimates of manufacturing apprentice numbers for Wales, but the 1992 results showed that an estimated 206,000 people of working age across all industries in Wales had received a job-related training in the four weeks prior to the survey compared with a figure of 95,000 in 1984, when this information was first recorded.
Manufacturing industries Year Number of apprentices (thousands) Number of other trainees (thousands) 1981 6.0 1.9 1982 4.7 1.8 1983 3.6 1.2 1984 3.1 1.4 1985 2.8 0.9 1986 2.3 1.1 1987 2.3 1.4 1988 2.4 1.3 1989 2.2 1.3 1990 2.2 1.7 Source: Short Term Employment Surveys, Employment Department.