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Mr. Nicholls : The detailed information is not available in the form requested.
It is for employers to assess their future skills needs in the light of their overall business plans and take the appropriate action. Details of the Government's sizeable contributions are set out in the White Paper "Employment in the 1990s" (Cd 540).
Earnings
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table showing the increase in average and median earnings of full-time adult male manual workers in manufacturing and non- manufacturing workers since April 1979.
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Mr. Nicholls : The available information from the new earnings survey is provided in the table :
*
Increase in weekly earnings April
1979-April 1989
Percent.
|Average|Median
------------------------------------------
Manufacturing |139 |134
Non-manufacturing |138 |137
Note: Full-time adult male manual
employees in Great Britain whose earnings
were not affected by absence.
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing (a) the average earnings of full-time adult male manual workers in the motor vehicle industry and (b) the average earnings of full-time adult male non- manual workers generally at (i) the latest available date, (ii) for 1959 and (iii) for 1972 ; and what information he has as to the nearest comparable figures for 1972 and the latest available date in West Germany.
Mr. Nicholls : The available information is provided in the tables :
1. Average gross hourly earnings of adult male
employees in Great
Britain: pay not affected by absence, April of
each year
|1972|1989
|£ |£
-------------------------------------------------
(a) Manual employees in the motor |0.93|5.69
vehicle industry
(b) All non-manual employees |1.11|8.23
Source: New Earnings Survey
2. Manual workers in the motor vehicle industry
in West Germany,
October of each year
|1972 |1988
|DM |DM
------------------------------------------------
Average gross hourly earnings |8.55 |21.79
Source: Eurostat
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the increase in (a) 1959 to 1968, (b) 1968 to 1979 and (c) 1979 to date in weekly and hourly earnings of (i) full-time adult male manual workers in manufacturing and all other full-time adult males excluding those working in the public sector and (ii) for manual workers and other workers in the public sector.
Mr. Nicholls : The available information from the new earnings survey is provided in the table :
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Earnings of full-time adult employees in Great Britain whose earnings were
not affected by absence; April of each year
Percentage increase
Weekly earnings Hourly earnings
|1970-79|1979-89|1970-79|1979-89
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(i) Males
(a) Manuals in manufacturing |243 |139 |249 |142
(b) Non-manuals not in public sector |226 |200 |n/a |200
(ii) Males and Females
(a) Manuals in public sector |267 |126 |n/a |137
(b) Non-manuals sector |226 |169 |n/a |171
Note: n/a denotes not available.
Employment Training
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment for each of Training Agency's areas within Greater London, Birmingham and Greater Manchester, what are the latest available monthly statistics since September 1988, showing for each month (a) the number of referrals to employment training from Restart interviews, (b) the number of employment training action plans completed, (c) the number of starts with employment training training managers, (d) the number of employment training filled places, and (e) the number of profiled or contracted employment training places.
Mr. Nicholls : As the information requested is contained in a number of tables I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment for each of the Training Agency's areas within Greater London, Birmingham and Greater Manchester, what are the latest available statistics for employment training showing the number of trainees in each monthly period who (a) have entered employer-based work placements and the cumulative total of how many are in employer placements at the latest available date and (b) the number of trainees in each monthly period who entered project-based work placements and the cumulative total of how many are in project-based placements at the latest available date.
Mr. Nicholls : Reliable statistics on the number of trainees on employer and project placements are not currently available at an area office level.
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many employment training places, at the latest available date, in each Training Agency area have been filled with starts with training managers ; and what percentage that is in each case of total employment training places contracted in each training agency area, for the latest available four months.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 23 October 1989] : The figures are given in the following table.
Table 1
Number of employment training places: June-September 1989
Area office |June |July |August |Sept.
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South East Region
Berkshire and Oxfordshire |1,267 |1,544 |1,502 |1,603
Buckinghamshire and
Hertfordshire |1,729 |2,152 |2,027 |2,234
Essex |1,750 |2,194 |2,144 |2,238
Hampshire and Isle of Wight |2,260 |2,898 |2,836 |2,793
Kent |2,060 |2,536 |2,476 |2,422
Surrey |499 |594 |610 |752
Sussex |1,926 |2,618 |2,652 |2,759
London Region
Inner London North |6,054 |6,362 |6,434 |6,986
Inner London South |3,302 |3,485 |3,429 |3,556
London East |2,338 |2,519 |2,523 |2,502
London North |3,704 |3,772 |3,922 |4,180
London South |1,759 |1,698 |1,598 |1,798
London West |1,186 |1,152 |1,086 |1,186
South West Region
Avon |2,675 |2,616 |2,567 |2,841
Devon and Cornwall |5,654 |5,696 |5,706 |5,681
Dorset and Somerset |1,889 |1,907 |1,769 |1,909
Gloucester and Wiltshire |1,568 |1,563 |1,529 |1,604
West Midlands Region
Birmingham and Solihull |7,677 |7,894 |8,151 |8,119
Coventry and Warwickshire |2,674 |2,768 |2,777 |2,831
Dudley and Sandwell |2,907 |2,937 |3,020 |3,029
Staffordshire |3,635 |3,693 |3,698 |3,513
The Marches, Hereford/
Worcester |2,702 |2,781 |2,865 |2,908
Wolverhampton and Walsall |3,161 |3,141 |3,129 |3,004
East Midlands and Eastern Region
Bedfordshire and
Cambridgeshire |1,703 |1,759 |1,736 |1,793
Derbyshire |2,962 |3,089 |3,157 |3,072
Leicestershire and
Northamptonshire |2,830 |3,000 |3,105 |3,297
Lincolnshire |1,389 |1,475 |1,519 |1,483
Norfolk and Suffolk |3,230 |3,272 |3,329 |3,333
Nottinghamshire |3,428 |3,779 |3,911 |3,907
Yorkshire and Humberside Region
Bradford, Calderdale and
Kirklees |4,590 |4,616 |4,630 |4,561
Humberside |5,231 |5,214 |5,187 |5,040
North Yorkshire and Leeds |4,494 |4,404 |4,397 |4,632
Sheffield and Rotherham |5,492 |5,475 |5,515 |5,575
Wakefield, Doncaster and
Barnsley |5,389 |5,496 |5,390 |5,368
North West Region
Cheshire |3,192 |3,405 |3,330 |3,227
Cumbria |1,399 |1,524 |1,518 |1,563
Lancashire |4,202 |4,201 |4,489 |4,464
Central Manchester |4,136 |4,327 |4,060 |4,136
Greater Manchester North |2,810 |2,983 |2,963 |2,899
Greater Manchester East |2,560 |2,642 |2,433 |2,546
Merseyside |9,266 |9,882 |9,885 |10,249
Northern Region
Cleveland |6,312 |6,448 |6,500 |6,375
County Durham |5,535 |5,732 |5,884 |5,854
Northumberland,
North Tyneside and
Newcastle |4,607 |4,878 |4,929 |5,249
Sunderland,
South Tyneside and
Gateshead |6,531 |6,793 |6,875 |6,740
Wales
Dyfed and West Glamorgan |4,404 |4,613 |4,607 |4,749
Gwent |2,237 |2,344 |2,410 |2,552
Gwynned, Clwyd and Powys |3,222 |3,620 |3,654 |3,889
Mid and South Glamorgan |4,957 |5,186 |5,289 |5,285
Scotland
Ayrshire, Dumfries and
Galloway |3,144 |3,182 |3,239 |3,431
Central and Fife |2,870 |2,891 |2,794 |2,884
Glasgow City |4,739 |4,807 |5,042 |5,304
Grampian and Tayside |2,522 |2,516 |2,598 |2,655
Highlands and Islands |993 |1,149 |1,133 |1,175
Lanarkshire |2,628 |2,697 |2,971 |2,901
Lothian and Borders |3,492 |3,549 |3,590 |3,542
Renfrew, Dumbarton and
Argyll |2,817 |2,941 |3,064 |3,161
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Table 2
Number of employment training filled and contracted places at
30 September 1989
Area office |Filled places |Contracted places |Percentage of contracted
|places
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South East Region
Berkshire and Oxfordshire |1,603 |2,269 |71
Buckinghamshire and
Hertfordshire |2,234 |2,201 |101
Essex |2,238 |2,324 |96
Hampshire and Isle of
Wight |2,793 |3,108 |90
Kent |2,422 |3,232 |75
Surrey |752 |964 |78
Sussex |2,759 |2,560 |108
London Region
Inner London North |6,986 |7,974 |88
Inner London South |3,556 |4,286 |83
London East |2,502 |2,620 |95
London North |4,180 |4,398 |95
London South |1,798 |1,965 |92
London West |1,186 |1,604 |74
South West Region
Avon |2,841 |3,393 |84
Devon and Cornwall |5,681 |6,125 |93
Dorset and Somerset |1,909 |1,855 |103
Gloucester and Wiltshire |1,604 |2,109 |76
West Midlands Region
Birmingham and Solihull |8,119 |8,725 |93
Coventry and Warwickshire |2,831 |3,553 |80
Dudley and Sandwell |3,029 |3,735 |81
Staffordshire |3,513 |4,286 |82
The Marches, Hereford/
Worcester |2,908 |4,095 |71
Wolverhampton and
Walsall |3,004 |4,110 |73
East Midlands and Eastern Region
Bedfordshire and
Cambridgeshire |1,793 |1,968 |91
Derbyshire |3,072 |3,412 |90
Leicestershire and
Northamptonshire |3,297 |3,559 |93
Lincolnshire |1,483 |1,536 |97
Norfolk and Suffolk |3,333 |3,250 |103
Nottinghamshire |3,907 |4,100 |95
Yorkshire and Humberside Region
Bradford, Calderdale and
Kirklees |4,561 |5,147 |89
Humberside |5,040 |6,315 |80
North Yorkshire and Leeds |4,632 |5,195 |89
Sheffield and Rotherham |5,575 |7,080 |79
Wakefield, Doncaster and
Barnsley |5,368 |5,350 |100
North West Region
Cheshire |3,227 |4,245 |76
Cumbria |1,563 |1,619 |97
Lancashire |4,464 |5,874 |76
Central Manchester |4,136 |6,876 |60
Greater Manchester
North |2,899 |3,505 |83
Greater Manchester East |2,546 |3,269 |78
Merseyside |10,249 |11,383 |90
Northern Region
Cleveland |6,375 |6,861 |93
County Durham |5,854 |5,474 |107
Northumberland, North
Tyneside and Newcastle |5,249 |6,315 |83
Sunderland, South Tyneside
and Gateshead |6,740 |8,323 |81
Wales
Dyfed and West Glamorgan |4,749 |5,220 |91
Gwent |2,552 |3,719 |69
Gwynned, Clwyd and
Powys |3,889 |5,216 |75
Mid and South Glamorgan |5,285 |6,703 |79
Scotland
Ayrshire, Dumfries and
Galloway |3,431 |4,200 |82
Central and Fife |2,884 |3,124 |92
Glasgow City |5,304 |7,010 |76
Grampian and Tayside |2,655 |3,754 |71
Highlands and Islands |1,175 |1,249 |94
Lanarkshire |2,901 |3,585 |81
Lothian and Borders |3,542 |3,619 |98
Renfrew, Dumbarton and
Argyll |3,161 |4,695 |67
Note: Contracted places figures only available for end September.
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many starts have been undertaken at employment training training managers on a monthly basis (a) nationally and (b) by training agency area, since May.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 23 October 1989] : The figures are provided in the following table.
Starts with Employment Training managers 1989
Area office In month figures
|June |July |August|Sept.
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South East Region
Berkshire and Oxfordshire |253 |428 |199 |378
Buckinghamshire and
Hertfordshire |308 |614 |310 |492
Essex |406 |786 |264 |508
Hampshire and Isle of Wight |494 |915 |342 |572
Kent |365 |762 |283 |491
Surrey |128 |155 |92 |248
Sussex |433 |876 |382 |679
London Region
Inner London North |1,005 |1,073 |955 |1,638
Inner London South |543 |542 |469 |823
London East |452 |452 |290 |467
London North |549 |544 |592 |999
London South |399 |261 |216 |530
London West |198 |206 |138 |307
South West Region
Avon |325 |326 |261 |681
Devon and Cornwall |971 |733 |623 |882
Dorset and Somerset |297 |221 |180 |344
Gloucester and Wiltshire |328 |218 |148 |354
West Midlands Region
Birmingham and Solihull |1,254 |1,079 |1,033 |1,461
Coventry and Warwickshire |449 |454 |415 |641
Dudley and Sandwell |452 |426 |467 |622
Staffordshire |597 |499 |389 |647
The Marches, Hereford/
Worcester |455 |414 |388 |615
Wolverhampton and Walsall |609 |598 |489 |550
East Midlands and Eastern Region
Bedfordshire and
Cambridgeshire |254 |260 |249 |396
Derbyshire |510 |444 |430 |512
Leicestershire and
Northamptonshire |476 |571 |733 |960
Lincolnshire |264 |271 |334 |196
Norfolk and Suffolk |549 |526 |395 |540
Nottinghamshire |740 |1,062 |929 |964
Yorkshire and Humberside Region
Bradford, Calderdale and
Kirklees |906 |730 |745 |953
Humberside |847 |748 |653 |1,167
North Yorkshire and Leeds |911 |727 |639 |1,230
Sheffield and Rotherham |927 |810 |808 |1,171
Wakefield, Doncaster and
Barnsley |901 |776 |704 |991
North West Region
Cheshire |839 |666 |416 |548
Cumbria |228 |272 |175 |325
Lancashire |876 |652 |946 |978
Central Manchester |965 |871 |643 |937
Greater Manchester North |871 |589 |569 |609
Greater Manchester East |588 |516 |458 |588
Merseyside |1,969 |1,753 |1,323 |2,193
Northern Region
Cleveland |1,360 |719 |838 |1,226
County Durham |919 |790 |704 |931
Northumberland, North
Tyneside and Newcastle |874 |810 |668 |1,003
Sunderland, South Tyneside
and Gateshead |1,037 |1,014 |734 |1,427
Wales
Dyfed and West Glamorgan |807 |807 |596 |1,068
Gwent |322 |358 |327 |622
Gwynedd, Clwyd and Powys |558 |651 |682 |983
Mid and South Glamorgan |959 |850 |741 |1,019
Scotland
Ayrshire, Dumfries and
Galloway |603 |366 |481 |694
Central and Fife |534 |297 |402 |700
Glasgow City |991 |636 |1,005 |1,122
Grampian and Tayside |535 |364 |457 |713
Highlands and Islands |269 |295 |173 |282
Lanarkshire |638 |465 |677 |611
Lothian and Borders |692 |565 |781 |703
Renfrew, Dumbarton and
Argyll |558 |437 |554 |732
Residential Training Colleges |105 |92 |31 |314
|--- |--- |--- |---
Great Britain Total |36,642|34,342|29,924|44,337
<1> Cumulative since 1 April 1989.
Parliamentary Answers (Drafting)
Mr. Andrew F. Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many individuals were employed by his Department whose primary role it was to draft answers to parliamentary questions in November of each of the last five years ; and how many he expects will be so employed at the end of November.
Mr. Eggar : My Department does not employ any individuals whose primary role is to draft answers to parliamentary questions. Answers are drafted by officials employed with policy responsibility for the subject area to which the question relates ; it is part of their normal range of duties.
Health and Safety Executive
Mr. Andrew F. Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what action he plans to take regarding the Health and Safety Executive office at Baynards house.
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Mr. Nicholls : There are no plans regarding the Health and Safety Executive office at Baynards house.
Health and Safety (Ethnic Minorities)
Mr. Bill Michie : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, for each Health and Safety Executive area, on how many occasions in the last three years Health and Safety Executive inspectors have arranged for letters to union appointed safety representatives to be translated into the appropriate mother-tongue language.
Mr. Nicholls : The information requested is not available.
Service Men's Wives
Mr. Thorne : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what information he has, for the latest year for which records exist and for the preceding three years, on the number of wives of service men seeking but unable to find employment (a) in the United Kingdom, (b) in the British Army of the Rhine and (c) elsewhere.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 27 October 1989] : This information is not available.
YTS
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons aged 16 and 17 years have not been offered places on YTS schemes in their own localities in each of the past 12 months.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 27 October 1989] : The Government guarantee the offer of a suitable YTS place to all young people under the age of 18 who are not in full-time employment or in full-time education who apply for one.
The guarantee continues to be met nationwide. At the end of September there were over 500,000 YTS places in contract, of which 110,821 were still unfilled.
Training (Statistics)
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the monthly statistics for the latest available four months for Great Britain and each standard training agency area for employment training showing (a) entrants in each monthly period and the number of cumulative entrants since the scheme started, (b) the total number of currently filled places, (c) the number of trainees in each monthly period, on employer based work placements and on project-based placements and (d) the number of trainees who left the scheme in each monthly period and the number of cumulative leavers since the scheme started.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 20 October 1989] : The figures for entrants and filled places are provided in tables 1 and 2. Information about trainees on employer and project-based training on a particular day is not available at area office level. The figures are collected quarterly ; the most recent figures for Great Britain are given in table 3. Information on leavers is not available at area office level. The figures for Great Britain are given in table 4.
Table 1
Starts with Employment Training training managers 1989
Area office In month figures
|June |July |August |September |Cumulative since 1
|September 1988
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South East Region
Berkshire and Oxfordshire |253 |428 |199 |378 |3,325
Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire |308 |614 |310 |492 |4,238
Essex |406 |786 |264 |508 |4,793
Hampshire and Isle of Wight |494 |915 |342 |572 |6,224
Kent |365 |762 |283 |491 |5,361
Surrey |128 |155 |92 |248 |1,519
Sussex |433 |876 |382 |679 |4,789
London Region
Inner London North |1,005 |1,073 |955 |1,638 |13,526
Inner London South |543 |542 |469 |823 |7,364
London East |452 |452 |290 |467 |5,220
London North |549 |544 |592 |999 |8,430
London South |399 |261 |216 |530 |3,784
London West |198 |206 |138 |307 |3,054
South West Region
Avon |325 |326 |261 |681 |5,121
Devon and Cornwall |971 |733 |623 |882 |11,464
Dorset and Somerset |297 |221 |180 |344 |3,893
Gloucester and Wiltshire |328 |218 |148 |354 |3,630
West Midlands
Birmingham and Solihull |1,254 |1,079 |1,033 |1,461 |15,915
Coventry and Warwickshire |449 |454 |415 |641 |5,949
Dudley and Sandwell |452 |426 |467 |622 |6,769
Staffordshire |587 |499 |389 |647 |7,622
The Marches, Hereford/Worcester |455 |414 |388 |615 |6,241
Wolverhampton and Walsall |609 |598 |489 |550 |7,503
East Midlands and Eastern Region
Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire |254 |260 |249 |396 |3,920
Derbyshire |510 |444 |430 |512 |6,668
Leicestershire and Northamptonshire |476 |571 |733 |960 |7,087
Lincolnshire |264 |271 |334 |196 |2,992
Norfolk and Suffolk |549 |526 |395 |540 |6,988
Nottinghamshire |740 |1,062 |929 |964 |9,708
Yorkshire and Humberside Region
Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees |906 |730 |745 |953 |11,175
Humberside |847 |748 |653 |1,167 |12,212
North Yorkshire and Leeds |911 |727 |639 |1,230 |11,073
Sheffield and Rotherham |927 |810 |808 |1,171 |14,027
Wakefield, Doncaster and Barnsley |901 |776 |704 |991 |12,160
North West Region
Cheshire |839 |666 |416 |548 |7,999
Cumbria |228 |272 |175 |325 |3,230
Lancashire |876 |652 |946 |978 |11,483
Central Manchester |965 |871 |643 |937 |10,644
Greater Manchester North |871 |589 |569 |609 |7,886
Greater Manchester East |588 |516 |458 |588 |7,327
Merseyside |1,969 |1,753 |1,323 |2,193 |21,064
Northern Region
Cleveland |1,360 |719 |838 |1,226 |13,665
County Durham |919 |790 |704 |931 |10,778
Northumberland, North Tyneside and
Newcastle |874 |810 |668 |1,003 |9,541
Sunderland, South Tyneside and
Gateshead |1,037 |1,014 |734 |1,427 |13,349
Wales
Dyfed and West Glamorgan |807 |807 |596 |1,068 |10,349
Gwent |322 |358 |327 |622 |5,092
Gwynned, Clwyd and Powys |558 |651 |682 |983 |7,622
Mid and South Glamorgan |959 |850 |741 |1,019 |11,456
Scotland
Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway |603 |366 |481 |694 |6,203
Central and Fife |534 |297 |402 |700 |6,269
Glasgow City |991 |636 |1,005 |1,122 |11,146
Grampian and Tayside |535 |364 |457 |713 |6,682
Highlands and Islands |269 |295 |173 |282 |2,217
Lanarkshire |638 |465 |677 |611 |7,323
Lothian and Borders |692 |565 |781 |703 |8,867
Renfrew, Dumbarton and Argyll |558 |437 |554 |732 |6,459
Residential Training Colleges |105 |92 |31 |314 |<1>707
|------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Great Britain Total |36,642 |34,342 |29,924 |44,337 |451,102
<1>Cumulative since 1 April 1989
Table 2
Number of Employment Training filled places:
June-September 1989
Area Office |June |July |August |Sept.
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South East Region
Berkshire and Oxfordshire |1,267 |1,544 |1,502 |1,603
Buckinghamshire and
Hertfordshire |1,729 |2,152 |2,027 |2,234
Essex |1,750 |2,194 |2,144 |2,238
Hampshire and Isle of Wight |2,260 |2,898 |2,836 |2,793
Kent |2,060 |2,536 |2,476 |2,422
Surrey |499 |594 |610 |752
Sussex |1,926 |2,618 |2,652 |2,759
London Region
Inner London North |6,054 |6,362 |6,434 |6,986
Inner London South |3,302 |3,485 |3,429 |3,556
London East |2,338 |2,519 |2,523 |2,502
London North |3,704 |3,772 |3,922 |4,180
London South |1,759 |1,698 |1,598 |1,798
London West |1,186 |1,152 |1,086 |1,186
South West Region
Avon |2,675 |2,616 |2,567 |2,841
Devon and Cornwall |5,654 |5,696 |5,706 |5,681
Dorset and Somerset |1,889 |1,907 |1,769 |1,909
Gloucester and Wiltshire |1,568 |1,563 |1,529 |1,604
West Midlands Region
Birmingham and Solihull |7,677 |7,894 |8,151 |8,119
Coventry and Warwickshire |2,674 |2,768 |2,777 |2,831
Dudley and Sandwell |2,907 |2,937 |3,020 |3,029
Staffordshire |3,635 |3,693 |3,698 |3,513
The Marches, Hereford/
Worcester |2,702 |2,781 |2,865 |2,908
Wolverhampton and Walsall |3,161 |3,141 |3,129 |3,004
East Midlands and Eastern Region
Bedfordshire and
Cambridgeshire |1,703 |1,759 |1,736 |1,793
Derbyshire |2,962 |3,089 |3,157 |3,072
Leicestershire and
Northamptonshire |2,830 |3,000 |3,105 |3,297
Lincolnshire |1,389 |1,475 |1,519 |1,483
Norfolk and Suffolk |3,230 |3,272 |3,329 |3,333
Nottinghamshire |3,428 |3,779 |3,911 |3,907
Yorkshire and Humberside Region
Bradford, Calderdale and
Kirklees |4,590 |4,616 |4,630 |4,561
Humberside |5,231 |5,214 |5,187 |5,040
North Yorkshire and Leeds |4,494 |4,404 |4,397 |4,632
Sheffield and Rotherham |5,492 |5,475 |5,515 |5,575
Wakefield, Doncaster and
Barnsley |5,389 |5,496 |5,390 |5,368
North West Region
Cheshire |3,192 |3,405 |3,330 |3,227
Cumbria |1,399 |1,524 |1,518 |1,563
Lancashire |4,202 |4,201 |4,489 |4,464
Central Manchester |4,136 |4,327 |4,060 |4,136
Greater Manchester North |2,810 |2,983 |2,963 |2,899
Greater Manchester East |2,560 |2,642 |2,433 |2,546
Merseyside |9,266 |9,882 |9,885 |10,249
Northern Region
Cleveland |6,312 |6,448 |6,500 |6,375
County Durham |5,535 |5,732 |5,884 |5,854
Northumberland, North
Tyneside and Newcastle |4,607 |4,878 |4,929 |5,249
Sunderland, South Tyneside
and Gateshead |6,531 |6,793 |6,875 |6,740
Wales
Dyfed and West Glamorgan |4,404 |4,613 |4,607 |4,749
Gwent |2,237 |2,344 |2,410 |2,552
Gwynned, Clwyd and Powys |3,222 |3,620 |3,654 |3,889
Mid and South Glamorgan |4,957 |5,186 |5,289 |5,285
Scotland
Ayrshire, Dumfries and
Galloway |3,144 |3,182 |3,239 |3,431
Central and Fife |2,870 |2,891 |2,794 |2,884
Glasgow City |4,739 |4,807 |5,042 |5,304
Grampian and Tayside |2,522 |2,516 |2,598 |2,655
Highlands and Islands |993 |1,149 |1,133 |1,175
Lanarkshire |2,628 |2,697 |2,971 |2,901
Lothian and Borders |3,492 |3,549 |3,590 |3,542
Renfrew, Dumbarton and
Argyll |2,817 |2,941 |3,064 |3,161
Residential Training College |512 |560 |528 |730
|--- |--- |--- |---
Great Britain |194,201 |202,969 |204,111 |208,069
Table 3
Employment Training
Percentages of Trainees on Placements with
Employers and on
projects as at 30 June 1989
|Employer |Project
|Percentage|Percentage
-----------------------------------------------
Great Britain |25 |50
Table 4 Employment Training Leavers (Estimated) Month |Leavers -------------------------- June |31,000 July |25,000 August |28,000 September |40,000 Cumulative (since September 1988) 239,000
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TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Consumer Protection
6. Mr. Graham : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any plans to introduce new legislation or regulations on consumer protection.
31. Mr. McCartney : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any plans to introduce new legislation or regulations on consumer protection.
Mr. Forth : We intend to improve the protection given to consumers in a number of ways including the introduction of regulations under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 on price indications and unit pricing about which we are currently engaging in public consultation, and changes to other legislation affecting consumers' interests.
55. Dr. Moonie : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any plans to introduce new legislation or regulations on consumer protection.
Mr. Forth : We intend to improve the protection given to consumers in a number of ways including the introduction of regulations under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 on price indications and unit pricing about which we are currently engaging in public consultation, and changes to other legislation affecting consumers' interests.
Imports
11. Mrs. Dunwoody : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what was the rise in import penetration in manufactured goods from 1979 until the first quarter of the current year.
Mr. Ridley : Import penetration in manufacturing industry rose from 27 per cent. in 1979 to 36 per cent. in the year ending March 1989.
Petrol Retailing
18. Mr. John Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects to respond to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report on petrol retailing.
38. Mr. Tom Clarke : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects to respond to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report on petrol retailing.
46. Mr. Ernie Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects to respond to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report on petrol retailing.
69. Mr. Rogers : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects to respond to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report on petrol retailing.
Mr. Redwood : The deadline for completion of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission's report has been extended to 20 December. The nature and timing of the response will depend on the findings of the report.
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Competition Policy
19. Mr. Ted Garrett : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any plans for a review of competition policy.
34. Mr. Bell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any plans for a review of competition policy.
Mr. Redwood : We are in the process of implementing the conclusions of our wide-ranging review of competition policy, which were published last year, and have no plans for a further review.
21. Mr. Jim Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any plans for a review of competition policy.
Mr. Redwood : We are in the process of implementing the conclusions of our review of competition policy, which were published last year, and have no plans for a further review.
28. Mr. McAvoy : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any plans for a review of competition policy.
Mr. Redwood : We are in the process of implementing the conclusions of our review of competition policy, which were published last year, and have no plans for a further review.
EC Meetings
22. Mr. Eadie : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he next plans to meet his EEC counterparts ; and what matters will be discussed.
50. Mr. Geoffrey Robinson : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he next plans to meet his EEC counterparts ; and what matters will be discussed.
Mr. Ridley : I intend to maintain close contact with all my EC counterparts, and a whole range of matters will be discussed.
Trade Statistics
23. Mr. Flannery : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry which Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries have a trade surplus, or a smaller trade deficit as a proportion of gross domestic product, than the United Kingdom.
47. Mr. Dunnachie : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry which Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries have a trade surplus, or a smaller trade deficit as a proportion of gross domestic product, than the United Kingdom.
70. Mr. Ron Brown : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry which Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries have a trade surplus, or a smaller trade deficit as a proportion of gross domestic product than the United Kingdom.
Mr. Redwood : All OECD countries except Portugal, Greece and Spain were in one or other category in 1988, the latest year for which complete figures are available.
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Textiles (False Labelling)
24. Mr. William O'Brien : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received over the question of false labelling of textiles ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : Representations have been received from the west Yorkshire trading standards service and a number of hon. Members in west Yorkshire expressing concern about overstatement of the wool content in imported carpets, and in garments made from Italian reclaimed fabric. Responsibility for enforcing the regulations which require the fibre content of textile products to be accurately described rests with local authority trading standards departments.
Footwear Industry
25. Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the current state of the footwear industry.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : My Department is fully aware of the difficulties facing United Kingdom footwear manufacturers and of their continuing concern over low-cost imports, particularly from the far east. We expect the Commission to publish the findings and recommendations of its Community -wide investigations into imports of footwear from Taiwan and South Korea shortly and we will give these prompt and serious consideration.
Labelling
26. Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any new plans for the labelling of consumer goods.
62. Mr. Livingstone : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any new plans for the labelling of consumer goods.
65. Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any new plans for the labelling of consumer goods.
Mr. Forth : Additional labelling requirements will come into force over the next year for toys and all-terrain vehicles. The Government has made clear its support for the early introduction of a Community-wide voluntary eco-labelling scheme. In addition my Department is supporting work designed to establish a certification trademark which could be awarded to goods which consistently meet high specifications, although launch of such a scheme would depend on adequate support from industry.
Regional Assistance
27. Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he intends to conduct a review of the way regional selective assistance has operated ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : An evaluation of the operation and effects of regional selective assistance in the period 1980 to 1984 has recently been completed and will be published in the first part of next year. The findings will be taken into account in the future operation of the scheme.
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35. Mr. Sumberg : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many individual firms and undertakings in the north west have benefited in the last 12 months as a result of funds made available through the regional selective assistance programme.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : During the period 1 October 1988 to 30 September 1989, payments of regional selective assistance were made to 483 firms and undertakings in the north west region.
39. Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any new plans for stimulating industry in Britain's regions.
60. Mr. Hoyle : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any new plans for stimulating industry in Britain's regions.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : Changes in the focus of our regional policies were made early last year. There are no plans for further changes.
Internal Market
29. Mr. Beith : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what further help is being given to companies to enable them to take full advantage of the establishment of the internal market in 1992.
Mr. Redwood : My Department's own "Europe Open for Business" information service is continually updated and expanded. Practical help is available through our enterprise initiatives--the consultancy initiative and the export initiative are particularly relevant to firms preparing for the single market.
There is also a growing range of information and advice available from private sector organisations and my Department will continue to work with such organisations to help enhance the services they offer.
Competitiveness
30. Mr. Turner : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received on the competitiveness of British industry.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : Most contacts which my Department has with industry and commerce involve matters having a bearing on United Kingdom competitiveness.
59. Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received on the competitiveness of British industry.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : Most contacts which my Department has with industry and commerce involve matters having a bearing on United Kingdom competitiveness.
British Business"
32. Ms. Primarolo : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry why he has ceased publication of British Business.
43. Mr. Faulds : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry why he has ceased publication of British Business.
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56. Mr. Patchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry why he has ceased publication of British Business.
Mr. Forth : Following the decision that responsibility for the statistical series with which DTI was previously concerned should transfer to the Central Statistical Office, British Business magazine lost much of its market and was no longer viable. I understand that the CSO are about to launch a series of business bulletins containing most of the new data previously published in British Business.
Consumer Councils
33. Mr. David Martin : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what effect nationalised industry consumer councils have had in protecting the consumer against above inflation price increases and poor service.
Mr. Forth : The national industry consumer councils are consulted by their respective industries on price increases. The industries concerned take a number of factors into account in arriving at a decision on such increases, and the national industry consumer councils play a valuable role in ensuring that the consumer view is adequately presented. The councils also have an influential role so far as standards of service are concerned, seeking improvements where experience shows this to be needed ; and they are able to take up individual complaints with their industries where the consumer has failed to resolve the matter direct with the industry.
British Telecom
36. Dr. Twinn : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he has any estimate of the number of people who own shares in British Telecom.
Mr. Forth : British Telecom's annual report and accounts indicate that at 31 March this year there were 1,203,243 shareholders.
Furniture (Safety)
37. Mr. Gregory : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects to receive the British Standards Institute's recommendations with regard to revising relevant furniture standards to specify the use of toughened or safety glass in low-level locations and methods of fixing glass panels in furniture ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Forth : A Committee of the British Standards Institution is preparing a specification for testing glass used in furniture and it is expected that a draft standard will be issued for consultation by mid-1990.
Securities and Investments Board
40. Mr. John Greenway : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received in response to proposed changes in the conduct of business rules at the Securities and Investments Board.
Mr. Redwood : I have received a number of representations about proposals by the Securities and Investments Board to amend its rules. The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that the questions raised in these representations are, however, a matter for the board.
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Mr. Tim Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many meetings he or the hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) has had since 31 July with (a) the chairman of the Securities and Investments Board, (b) the chairmen of each of the self-regulating organisations recognised by the Securities and Investments Board and (c) the chairman or president of each of the professional bodies recognised by the Securities and Investments Board.
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