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Mr. Foster
asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish the planned reduction in the number of preparatory training opportunity programmes training places in each region of the United Kingdom and the total.
Mr. Jim Lester
[pursuant to his reply, 1 April 1980]: The following table shows for each region of the training services division of the Manpower Services Commission the estimated number of trainees
| PREPARATORY COURSE STARTS | |||
| Region | 1979–80 (Estimated) | 1980–81 (Expected) | Change |
| Scotland | 200 | 340 | +140 |
| Northern | 110 | 124 | + 14 |
| Yorks/Humberside | 235 | 352 | +117 |
| North West | 637 | 390 | -247 |
| Midlands | 804 | 741 | -63 |
| Wales | 91 | 135 | +44 |
| South West | 111 | 114 | +3 |
| South East | 542 | 636 | +94 |
| London | 900 | 660 | -240 |
| Great Britain | 3,630 | 3,492 | -138 |