§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will list the supply and demand of youth training places in each training and enterprise council area on a monthly basis for the last six months.
§ Mr. McLoughlinInformation on the availability of youth training places is not collected nationally. However, I am satisfied that there is sufficient YT provision available to meet demand. Information on the total demand for YT places is also not collected, but the number of young people who are registered with careers services in England, who are covered by the YT guarantee and have been waiting for a YT place for eight or more weeks in March and April is shown in the table. Information for the previous months is not reliable.
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Young people wailing for 8 or more weeks for a place on YT: 1993 TEC March2 April3 Avon 88 117 AZTEC 156 95 Barnsley and Doncaster 36 35 Bedfordshire 115 1164 Birmingham 110 131 Bolton and Bury 41 19 Bradford 15 18 Calderdale and Kirklees 18 15 CAMBSTEC 69 54 Central England 14 19 Central London 136 1152 CEWTEC 18 12 CILNTEC 143 109 County Durham 62 71 Coventry and Warwicks 79 186 Cumbria 33 6 Devon and Cornwall 66 171 Dorset 23 15 Dudley 2 1 ELTEC 19 29 Essex 373 329 Gloucester 28 11 Greater Nottingham 32 35 Greater Peterborough 23 17 Hampshire 207 1304 HAWTEC 19 130 Heart of England 15 24 Hertfordshire 107 164 Humberside 47 36 Isle of Wight 37 28 Kent 338 183
TEC March2 April3 LAWTEC 40 28 Leeds 37 26 Leicestershire 27 131 LETEC 439 380 Lincolnshire 19 39 Manchester 106 193 Merseyside 42 47 METROTEC 21 6 Milton Keynes and North Bucks 32 142 Norfolk/Waveney 4 31 NORMIDTEC 13 9 North Derbyshire 42 39 North London 66 179 North Nottinghamshire 91 55 North West London 111 107 North Yorkshire 79 159 Northamptonshire 62 139 Northumberland 47 58 Oldham 36 48 QUALITEC 20 16 Rochdale 18 15 Rotherham 4 9 Sandwell 10 20 South and East Cheshire 0 0 Sheffield 156 147 Shropshire 19 24 SOLQTEC 206 194 Somerset 97 1114 South Derbyshire 25 129 South Thames 476 451 Staffordshire 4 6 Stockport and High Peak 16 19 Suffolk 13 13 Surrey 94 199 Sussex 66 86 Teesside 45 56 Thames Valley Enterprise 185 1198 Tyneside 60 159 Wakefield 18 18 Walsall 3 12 Wearside 0 0 West London 36 48 Wiltshire 68 168 Wolverhampton 2 6 1 These figures are subject to final confirmation. 2 11 March 1993. 3 17 April 1993. Sources: Information from Careers Service Management return (Supplement).