HC Deb 23 November 1994 vol 250 cc226-8W
Mr. Bryan Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is his Department's estimate of the number of employers with 200 or more employees in each training and enterprise council area.

Mr. Oppenheim

The available information relates to individual workplaces, not employers. The number of workplaces in each training and enterprise council area with more than 200 employees at September 1991 is shown in the following table:

TEC Units
Hampshire 364
Heart of England 121
Isle of Wight 14
Kent 308
Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire 60
Surrey 215
Sussex 276
Thames Valley Enterprise 329
Bedfordshire 131
CAMBSTEC 104
Essex 277
Greater Peterborough 71
Hertfordshire 234
Norfolk and Waveney 189
Suffolk 121
Aztec 129
CENTEC 622
CILNTEC 320
London East 239
North London 134
North West London 95
SOLOTEC 223
South Thames 236
West London 276
Avon 251
Devon and Cornwall 222
Dorset 128
Gloucestershire 118
Somerset 92
Wiltshire 162
Birmingham 284
Central England 95
Coventry and Warwickshire 191
Dudley 53
HAWTEC 84
Sandwell 89
Shropshire 85
Staffordshire 216
Walsall 61
Wolverhampton 63
Greater Nottingham 160
Leicestershire 224
Lincolnshire 90
North Derbyshire 66
North Nottinghamshire 95
Northamptonshire 145
South Derbyshire 123
Barnsley and Doncaster 102
Bradford and District 114
Calderdale and Kirklees 120
Humberside 183
Leeds 206
North Yorkshire 138
Rotherham 56
Sheffield 118
Wakefield 78
CEWTEC 100

TEC Units
Cumbria 91
ELTEC 126
LAWTEC 184
Merseyside 191
NorMidTEC 121
QUALITEC 37
Bolton and Bury 97
Manchester 348
METROTEC 60
Oldham 45
Rochdale 34
South and East Cheshire 79
Stockport and High Peak 73
County Durham 117
Northumberland 44
Teesside 117
Tyneside 208
Wearside 63
Gwent 91
Mid Glamorgan 123
North East Wales 70
North West Wales 45
Powys 10
South Glamorgan 130
West Wales 124

The table excludes Agriculture and Horticulture (Standard Industrial Classification 80, Activity Heading 0100).