asked the Paymaster General (1) if he will list the skillcentres open in (a) June 1979 and (b) June 1986; and if he will give the unemployment rate for each of the centre's respective travel-to-work areas at those times;(2) if he will list the number of trainees completing courses, and the total training weeks offered for each skillcentre, for each year since 1979 for which figures are available.
The available information is contained in the table.
1984–85
| 1985–86
| 1986–87
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Number of trainees completing courses
| Total training weeks offered
| Number of trainees completing courses
| Total training weeks offered
| Number of trainees completing courses
| Total training weeks offered
| Travel-to-work area6
| Unemployment rate5 6 12 June 1986 per cent.
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| Lambeth | — | — | 64 | 663 | 348 | 7,418 | London | 10·4 |
| Lambeth YTC2 | — | 3,467 | — | — | — | — | London | 10·4 |
| Leeds | 401 | 16,536 | 483 | 9,769 | 650 | 12,902 | Leeds | 12·3 |
| Leicester | 450 | 9,557 | 236 | 7,160 | 452 | 8,447 | Leicester | 10·4 |
| Letchworth | 245 | 14,165 | 462 | 14,319 | 575 | 15,583 | Hitchin and Letchworth | 8·1 |
| Liverpool (MATU) | 600 | 6,240 | 549 | 7,970 | 791 | 13,053 | Liverpool | 20·3 |
| Liverpool (old)3 | 582 | 18,720 | 125 | 4,129 | — | — | ||
| Llanelli3 | 140 | 5,029 | 114 | 2,035 | — | — | Llanelli | 17·8 |
| Long Eaton3 | 299 | 7,113 | 254 | 5,636 | — | — | Nottingham | 13·3 |
| Manchester (Denton)3 | 186 | 7,904 | 103 | 2,375 | 623 | — | Manchester | 14·0 |
| Manchester (Trafford Park) | 349 | 15,028 | 477 | 10,861 | — | 12,875 | ||
| Manchester (Hindley Annexe)4 | 127 | 4,765 | — | — | — | — | ||
| Medway | 226 | 10,953 | 306 | 11,385 | 463 | 12,926 | Medway and Maidstone | 11·9 |
| Medway Annexe (Sittingbourne)4 | 136 | 4,767 | 111 | 2,793 | — | — | Sittingbourne and Sheerness | 14·0 |
| Middlesbrough3 | 123 | 7,070 | 75 | 1,775 | — | — | Middlesbrough | 21·9 |
| Millbrook (Southampton) | 238 | 8,440 | 271 | 7,130 | 154 | 6,221 | Southampton | 10·6 |
| Milton Keynes | 140 | 4,717 | 153 | 5,451 | 427 | 5,444 | Milton Keynes | 12·7 |
| North Staffordshire | 393 | 5,796 | 212 | 4,749 | 274 | 5,536 | Stoke | 11·8 |
| Northampton | 69 | 1,883 | 89 | 1,881 | 107 | 3,318 | Northampton | 9·5 |
| Norwich | 147 | 7,535 | 250 | 7,160 | 381 | 7,656 | Norwich | 10·0 |
| Nottingham (Long Eaton Annexe) | 145 | 4,103 | 136 | 4,779 | 382 | 9,577 | Nottingham | 13·3 |
| Perivale | 137 | 7,869 | 160 | 6,667 | 146 | 6,271 | London | 10·4 |
| Peterborough | 184 | 5,956 | 162 | 5,445 | 180 | 5,725 | Peterborough | 12·5 |
| Plymouth | 240 | 7,944 | 438 | 8,208 | 496 | 12,557 | Plymouth | 14·4 |
| Plymouth Annexe3 | 126 | 2,938 | 121 | 1,967 | — | — | ||
| Portsmouth | 292 | 9,379 | 277 | 8,231 | 311 | 8,826 | Portsmouth | 12·0 |
| Preston | 333 | 9,984 | 300 | 5,927 | 329 | 6,968 | Preston | 11·2 |
| Reading | 171 | 4,790 | 178 | 6,309 | 194 | 7,573 | Reading | 7·2 |
| Redditch3 | 81 | 5,344 | 218 | 4,114 | — | — | Birmingham | 16·0 |
| Redruth | 265 | 6,561 | 311 | 6,599 | 340 | 8,043 | Redruth and Camborne | 20·5 |
| Rochdale | 233 | 10,192 | 286 | 6,180 | 387 | 8,127 | Rochdale | 17·4 |
| St. Helens | 263 | 8,528 | 211 | 5,896 | 331 | 8,308 | Wigan and St. Helens | 18·8 |
| Sheffield | 378 | 16,016 | 359 | 8,246 | 241 | 9,815 | Sheffield | 16·1 |
| Slough | 205 | 8,063 | 226 | 8,405 | 213 | 7,324 | Slough | 6·5 |
| Slough Annexe3 | 193 | 5,400 | 159 | 4,916 | — | — | ||
| Southampton | 307 | 9,613 | 319 | 961 | 346 | 11,604 | Southampton | 10·6 |
| Swindon | 279 | 7,568 | 228 | 6,509 | 255 | 8,829 | Swindon | 12·0 |
| Twickenham | 111 | 7,341 | 262 | 8,898 | 322 | 9,791 | Heathrow | 7·1 |
| Tyneside | 319 | 12,765 | 737 | 12,449 | 573 | 17,827 | South Tyneside | 25·9 |
| Tyneside Annexe4 | 5 | 13 | — | — | — | — | ||
| Waddon3 | 64 | 3,431 | 64 | 1,156 | — | — | London | 10·4 |
| Waddon Annexe3 | 68 | 5,271 | 49 | 2,552 | — | — | ||
| Wakefield | 257 | 14,248 | 206 | 4,727 | 277 | 6,215 | Wakefield and Dewsbury | 15·2 |
| West Glamorgan | 220 | 9,508 | 477 | 9,826 | 871 | 12,687 | Neath and Port Talbot | 14·7 |
| West Gwent3 | 347 | 5,380 | 87 | 1,804 | — | — | Newport | 15·5 |
| West Sussex | 156 | 5,994 | 295 | 8,487 | 414 | 11,795 | Worthing | 8·3 |
| West Sussex Annexe3 | 143 | 5,441 | 87 | 2,993 | — | — | ||
| Wigan | 267 | 8,632 | 192 | 4,872 | 259 | 7,025 | Wigan and St. Helens | 18·8 |
| Wolverhampton | 247 | 9,308 | 321 | 7,415 | 477 | 10,090 | Wolverhampton | 18·3 |
| Wolverhampton Annexe3 | 63 | 4,074 | 87 | 4,546 | — | — | ||
| Worsley (Manchester Annexe)3 | 194 | 6,032 | 36 | 1,198 | — | — | Manchester | 14·0 |
| Wrexham | 311 | 7,478 | 334 | 6,647 | 349 | 6,579 | Wrexham | 16·7 |
| Total | 19,951 | 679,507 | 21,935 | 521,280 | 24,344 | 572,484 | ||
1 No figures available. Charlton skillcentre closed during 1985–86. | ||||||||
2 Trainees completed their courses at other skillcentres.
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3 This skillcentre annexe closed down during 1985–86 and the figures for 1985–86 are correspondingly reduced. | ||||||||
4 This annexe closed during 1985–86. Separate statistics for 1985–86 are no longer available. | ||||||||
5 The unemployment rate is the number of unemployed expressed as a percentage of employees in employment plus the unemployed. | ||||||||
6 Comparable unemployment statistics are not available for 1979 because of major revisions to travel-to-work area boundaries in 1984 and changes in the method of compiling the unemployment figures. Statistics of unemployed registrants in 1979 in travel-to-work areas as defined in 1978 are available in the Library. | ||||||||
7 The Blaenau Gwent skillcentre closed in February 1983. The unemployment rate in that month in the Ebbw Vale travel-to-work area was 24·3 per cent. This area is now covered by the Blaenau, Gwent and Abvergavenny travel-to-work area, and the unemployment rate for this area on 12 June 1986 was 19·5 per cent. | ||||||||