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Mr. Ernie Ross
asked the Secretary of State what has been the intake of engineering apprentices in (a) Dundee, (b) Tayside and (c) Scotland in each year since 1978; and how many apprentices have been made redundant in the last year in each of the three cases.
Mr. Alexander Fletcher
The available information—which relates to firms within the scope of the Engineering Industry Training Board in Scotland—is given in the following tables.
| Intake of Engineering Apprentices | |||||
| 1978–79 | 1979–80 | 1980–81 | 1981–82 | 1 September 1982 to date | |
| Dundee | 134 | 100 | 87 | 87 | 61 |
| Tayside | 201 | 158 | 123 | 146 | 95 |
| Scotland | 2,366 | 2,004 | 1,600 | 1,425 | 929 |
| Redundancies Amongst Engineering Apprentices | ||
| 1981–82 | 1 September 1982 to date | |
| Dundee | 3 | 0 |
| Tayside | 3 | 0 |
| Scotland | 158 | 23 |