§ Mr. Jim CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many 16 to 24-year-olds in the west midlands are in in-work training; and, of those, how many are employed in the manufacturing industry. [25167]
§ Mr. PaiceThe number of employed status trainees on major schemes funded by the Government via training and enterprise councils in the west midlands as at 25 February 1996 is:
- Youth programmes = 13,728 (total in training 26,596)
- Training for work = 3411 (total in training 6,672)
- Total: 14,069 (total in training 33,269)
- 1Includes 35 self employed.
It is not possible to extract the numbers employed in manufacturing from the overall figures.