§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to her answer of 19 November 1992,Official Report, columns 337–38, on disposal of skills training agency or skill centre properties, if he will make a statement on the position of the remaining 10 properties.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe ex-skill centre properties which remain unsold following the privatisation of the skills training agency are being actively marketed, on the open market, by the Department's agent surveyors, King Sturge and Co.
§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to her answer of 19 November 1992,Official Report, columns 337–38, on closure of skill centres, if she will list (a) the original 60 skill centres and (b) the eight sold with the skills training agency which she understands no longer to be functioning.
§ Mr. McLoughlin(a) the original 60 skill centres were:
- Barking
- Basildon
- Bellshill
- Billingham
- Birmingham
- Bradford
- Bristol
- Cardiff
- Chelmsford
- Cheshire
- Chesterfield
- Cumbria
- Deptford
- Dundee
- Durham
- East Lancashire
- Edinburgh
- Edinburgh RO
- Enfield
- Enfield (Annex)
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- Gwent
- Hillington
- Hull
- Ipswich
- Irvine
- Lambeth
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Letchworth
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Manchester RO
- Medway
- Milton Keynes
- North Staffordshire
- Northampton
- Norwich
- Perivale
- Peterborough
- Plymouth
- Portsmouth
- Preston
- Reading
- Redruth
- Rochdale
- St. Helens
- Sheffield
- Skyline House
- Slough
- Southampton
- Southampton (Annex)
- Swindon
- Twickenham
- Tyneside
- Wakefield
- West Glamorgan
- West Sussex
- Wigan
- Wrexham
(b) The training businesses at the following properties, sold with the skills training agency, are understood to be no longer functioning:
- Barking
- Coventry
- Peterborough
- West Sussex
- Wrexham