Return-to-work Training (Hansard, 18 March 2004)

§ Mr. Bercow
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many women in Buckingham 475W have visited an information and communications technology training centre in order to learn skills to return to work. [161319]

§ Mr. Ivan Lewis
In the period October 2003—December 2003¹, 1,213 people visited a UK Online centre in Buckingham. 680 (56 per cent.) of these people were women.
Since learndirect was launched in 1999, 498 people from Buckingham have enrolled on a learndirect course. 257 (52 per cent.) of these people were women. Of the total number of women who enrolled on a course 25 per cent. did so in order to learn skills to return to work. ¹There are no statistics available for UK online prior to September 2003 as the DfES did not collect this data on a centre by centre basis.

§ Mr. Hoyle
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many(a) men and (b) women in Chorley have visited an information and communications technology centre to learn skills to return to work. [161449]

§ Mr. Ivan Lewis
In the period October 2003— December 2003¹, 1,111 people visited a UK Online centre in Chorley. The split between men and women was 489 (44 per cent.) men and 622 (56 per cent.) women.
Since learndirect was launched in 1999, 973 people from Chorley have enrolled on a learndirect course. The split between men and women WAS 575 (59 per cent.) women and 398 (41 per cent.) men. ¹There are no statistics available for UK online prior to September 2003 as the DfES did not collect this data on a centre by centre basis.