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Information Technology Centres

Volume 75: debated on Thursday 21 March 1985

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asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the information technology education centres in the United Kingdom; and if he will give for each one (a) the number of staff, full-time equivalents, (b) the number of available places in the current year, (c) the number of unfilled places in the current year and (d) the cost in the current year.

I have been asked to reply.There are currently 163 information technology centres (ITeCs) in operation and these are as follows. The Manpower Services Commission does not keep centrally detailed information about individual ITeCs and this could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, national figures for the ITeC programme are available and at the end of February there were 1,111 adult staff, 5,994 available places and 5,248 trainees in training, comprising young people on both 1983–84 and 1984–85 schemes. The cost of the programme to the commission in the current financial year is estimated to be about 24 million.London Region (15)

  • Brent
  • Brixton
  • Camden
  • Covent Garden
  • Croydon
  • Docklands
  • Greenwich
  • Hackney
  • Haringey
  • Hounslow
  • Islington
  • Lewisham
  • Nottingdale
  • Southall
  • Southwark (Microtech)

Midlands (27)

  • Aston (Birmingham)
  • Bedworth
  • Boston and South Holland
  • Burton-on-Trent
  • Cannock
  • Corby
  • Coventry
  • Derby
  • Dudley
  • East Lindsay
  • Grantham
  • Hanley (Stoke)
  • Leicester
  • Mansfield
  • Newcastle under Lyme
  • Northampton
  • North Leicestershire
  • Nottingham
  • Rugby
  • Sandwell
  • Solihull
  • Stafford
  • Telford
  • Walsall
  • Wolverhampton
  • Worcester

Northern (10)

  • Aycliffe
  • Cleveland
  • Cramlington
  • Durham
  • Gateshead
  • Hebburn
  • Newcastle
  • North Tyneside
  • Peterlee
  • Sunderland

North West (29)

  • Barrow
  • Blackburn
  • Blackpool (Flyde Coast)
  • Bolton
  • Burnley
  • Bury
  • Carlisle
  • Charles Wootton
  • Ellesmere Port
  • Halton
  • Knowsley
  • Lancaster
  • Liverpool (Merseyside Training)
  • Manchester (6502)
  • Manchester (ORT)
  • Oldham
  • Preston
  • Rochdale
  • Salford
  • Sefton
  • South Liverpool
  • Southport
  • St. Helens
  • Tameside
  • Warrington
  • West Cumbria
  • West Lancashire (Skelmersdale)
  • Wigan
  • Wirral (Marconi)

Scotland (21)

  • Aberdeen
  • Bellshill
  • Borders
  • Bridgeton
  • Clydebank
  • Cranhill
  • Cumbernauld
  • Dumfries
  • Dundee
  • East Kilbride
  • Edinburgh City
  • Falkirk
  • Glenrothes
  • Govan
  • Inverclyde
  • Inverness (Highland)
  • Irvine
  • Levenmouth (East Fife)
  • Stirling
  • West Fife
  • West Lothian

South East (25)

  • Ashford
  • Basildon
  • Bracknell
  • Brighton
  • Cambridge
  • Crawley
  • Gravesham
  • Guildford
  • Harlow
  • Hastings
  • Ipswich
  • Isle of Wight
  • Maidstone
  • Medway
  • Milton Keynes
  • Norwich
  • Peterborough
  • Portsmouth
  • Reading
  • Rochford (South East Essex)
  • Slough
  • Southampton
  • South East Surrey
  • Staines (Spelthorne)
  • Stevenage

South West (12)

  • Bath
  • Bristol (St. Anne's)
  • Bristol (New Work)
  • Christchurch
  • Cornwall
  • Darlington
  • Exeter
  • Gloucester
  • North Bristol
  • Plymouth
  • Swindon
  • Taunton

Wales (12)

  • Caernarfon
  • Cardiff
  • Clwyd (Kelsterton)
  • East Dyfed (Llanelli)
  • Ebbw Vale
  • Neath
  • Newport
  • Swansea
  • Treforest (Pontypridd)
  • Vale of Clwyd
  • West Dyfed
  • Wrexham

Yorks and Humberside (12)

  • Barnsley
  • Bradford
  • Grimsby
  • Halifax
  • Harehills (Leeds)
  • Hull
  • Kirklees
  • Scunthorpe
  • Sheffield
  • Shipley
  • South Leeds
  • York