§ Mr. Bryan DaviesTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest available figures for the number of employees in each training and enterprise council area who have been recognised as achieving investors in people standard; and what percentage of the employees potentially eligible for receipt of the award this represents in each area.
§ Mr. PaiceThe latest figures, at 4 December 1994, for employers in each training and enterprise council area in England and Wales, who have been recognised as achieving the investors in people standard are shown in the following table. It is not possible to provide information on what percentage of the employees potentially eligible for receipt of the award this represents in each area. Organisations committed to, or recognised as, investors in people employ between them 17 per cent. of the UK work force.
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Employers recognised as investors in people—as at 4 December 1994 TEC Employers Greater Nottingham 7 Leicestershire 11 Lincolnshire 6 Northamptonshire 16 North Derbyshire 11 North Nottinghamshire 17 Southern Derbyshire 28 Bedfordshire 10 CAMBSTEC 3 Essex 11 Greater Peterborough 2 Hertfordshire 7 Norfolk and Waveney 16 Suffolk 7 County Durham 18 Northumberland 14 Teeside 19 Tyneside 22 Sunderland City 6 Barnsley/Doncaster 17 Bradford and District 5 Calderdale/Kirklees 9 Humberside 48 Leeds 18 Rotherham 10 Sheffield 7 Wakefield 4 North Yorkshire 14 Bolton/Bury 14 Cumbria 6 ELTEC 22 LAWTEC 7 Manchester 19 METROTEC 6 NORMIDTEC 23 Oldham 7 Rochdale 2 South and East Cheshire 16 Stockport/High Peak 7 Birmingham 17 Central England 20 Coventry/Warwickshire 15 Dudley 6 HAWTEC 13 Sandwell 3 Shropshire 7 Staffordshire 5 Walsall 5 Wolverhampton 6
Employers recognised as investors in people—as at 4 December 1994 TEC Employers Mid Glamorgan 18 South Glamorgan 11 Gwent 10 Powys 4 North East Wales 5 North West Wales 6 West Wales 21 Avon 20 Devon and Cornwall 58 Dorset 39 Gloucestershire 89 Somerset 10 Wiltshire 16 Hampshire 30 Heart of England 14 Wight Training and Enterprise 1 Kent 9 Milton Keynes 4 Surrey 16 Sussex 15 Thames Valley Enterprise 39 AZTEC 8 North London 3 North West London 7 CILNTEC 4 CENTEC 10 London East 5 SOLOTEC 7 West London 8 South Thames 4 CEWTEC 15 Merseyside 32 QUALITEC 3