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Ms. Quin
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will give for each standard planning region of England (a) the number of employees of his Department, (b) the amount spent in wages and salaries and (c) the proportion of total expenditure in each region by his Department which is represented by personnel costs.
Mr. Butcher
The following gives, by standard planning region:
| Approved projects | Task force | Birmingham City Council | MSC | Other sources |
| Handsworth | ||||
| Black Star Car Company—motor vehicle repair project run as a community business | 28,535 | — | 66,000 | — |
| Broughton Road housing refurbishment local labour initiative | 575,000 | 250,000 | — | 775,000 |
| CANDEL Potohari Hinko: provision of a community base to develop employment and training opportunities, and provide a drugs and AIDS awareness programme | 68,000 | 65,000 | 172,000 | — |
| Copthorne Hotel customised pre-recruitment training programme | 6,500 | 6,500 | 30,000 | — |
| CP Management Training for ethnic minorities, and follow-up | 85,800 | 67,800 | 41,000 | — |
| Grove Lane Baths—Community and Youth Enterprise Centre | 272,000 | 143,750 | 563,000 | 463,250 |
| Handsworth Employment Scheme Catering Training Unit | 53,000 | — | 51,000 | — |
| Handsworth Opportunities Programme for Employment (HOPE): Sikh managed CP scheme to refurbish the group's training base | 36,500 | 1,040 | 177,000 | 3,119 |
| Handsworth Churches Forum YTS Training Centre and Neighbourhood Care Project | 115,075 | — | 151,851 | 965 |
| Handsworth Single Homeless Housing Association Development Worker | 15,000 | — | — | — |
| Hotel and Catering pre-recruitment training Compact with 12 major Birmingham hotels | 92,500 | 31,000 | — | 50,000 |
| Inner City Contracts—non profit making building company, providing jobs for local people | 58,325 | — | — | — |
| Inner City Glass Decorating: a craft workshop for predominantly disabled Task Force area residents which will develop into a community business | 14,318 | 2,571 | 39,800 | 7,714 |
| Local recruitment in the finance sector—feasibility study | 3,967 | — | 25,000 | — |
| United Youth Association: construction skills training | 105,025 | — | 43,164 | — |
| Villa Cross Employment Centre (formerly Villa Cross pub) | 302,875 | 17,500 | 60,000 | 152,500 |
| Asian Business Institute | 17,000 | — | — | 125,000 |
| Birmingham Interpretation and Translation Service (BITS): grant to turn existing voluntary organisation into a self financing business | 32,269 | 16,250 | — | 48,750 |
Region
| (a) Staff in post 1 April 1988
| (b) Salaries and wages 1987–88 (£'000)
| (c) Per cent. of total running costs
|
| North | 241 | 2,763 | 79 |
| North West | 386 | 4,566 | 82 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | 236 | 2,609 | 80 |
| East Midlands | 171 | 2,000 | 80 |
| West Midlands | 287 | 2,728 | 75 |
| South West | 172 | 1,836 | 81 |
| East Anglia | 55 | 740 | 73 |
| South East | 8,609 | 120,286 | 57 |
| Total | 10,157 | 137,528 | 59 |