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Mr. Amos
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what assistance his Department is making available to NGF(90)Ltd., organisers of the Gateshead
| Table 1 Establishments covered by wages councils on register—as at January 1989 | ||||||||||
| Wages councils | Divisions London | South East | Eastern | South West | Midlands | North West | Yorkshire and Humberside | North | Scotland | Great Britain |
| Aerated waters | 7 | 14 | 57 | 16 | 111 | 25 | 24 | 22 | 66 | 342 |
| Clothing manufacture | 3,006 | 159 | 306 | 301 | 1,282 | 937 | 452 | 214 | 307 | 6,964 |
| Boot and shoe repairing | 764 | 255 | 258 | 345 | 373 | 406 | 111 | 70 | 130 | 2,878 |
| Button manufacturing | 18 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 57 |
| Coffin furniture and cerement making | 1 | — | — | 2 | 8 | 2 | 5 | — | 2 | 20 |
| Cotton waste reclamation | — | — | — | — | 1 | 28 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 42 |
| Flax and hemp | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| Fur | 147 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 28 | 11 | 3 | 36 | 262 |
garden festival, for the employment and training of unemployed people during the festival; and if he will snake a statement.
Mr. Eggar
I am making arrangements so that the organisers may employ and train up to 1,140 unemployed people during the festival from public funds. Parliamentary approval to this provision will be sought in a supplementary estimate for the Department of Employment's training and enterprise programmes vole (class VI vote 1). Pending that approval, urgent expenditure estimated at £2·7 million will be met by repayable advances from the Contingencies Fund.