To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list, for each city challenge area, the most recent figures for (a) population, (b) area of geographical coverage, (c) number of residential dwellings, (d) unemployment rate, (e) the number of training places created since their inception and (f) the numbers completing training courses, by type of course.
The information requested is shown in the table. Data are not available to show numbers completing training courses.
City challenge area
| Population
| Area (hectares)
| Residential dwellings
| Unemployment rate (percentage)
| Forecast training weeks 1993–94
|
(a)
| (b)
| (c)
| (d)
| (e)
| |
| Derby | 26,000 | 240 | n/a | 25·0 | 13,550 |
| Hackney | 23,000 | 215 | 8,027 | 23·6 | 19,323 |
| Hartlepool | 11,200 | 280 | 4,600 | 22·7 | 936 |
| Kensington | 25,000 | 216 | 11,000 | 18·1 | 3,777 |
| Kirklees | 20,000 | 550 | 7,000 | 110·8 | 4,316 |
| Lambeth | 30,000 | 250 | n/a | 29·0 | 18,422 |
| Leicester | 13,600 | 370 | n/a | 13·6 | 1,000 |
| Newham | 17,000 | 518 | 6,899 | 20·8 | 22,300 |
| North Tyneside | 36,000 | 1,128 | n/a | 15·4 | 5,282 |
| Sandwell | 27,000 | 606 | 9,300 | 16·0 | 13,211 |
| Sefton | 29,000 | 800 | n/a | 36·0 | 100 |
| Stockton | 23,600 | 695 | 10,000 | 22·8 | 6,786 |
| Sunderland | 37,000 | 2,950 | 12,680 | 116·1 | 9,841 |
| Walsall | 15,000 | 470 | 5,000 | 17·2 | n/a |
| Wigan | 20,000 | 800 | 8,400 | 16·0 | 4,862 |
| n/a = Data is not available. | |||||
1 DOE estimate. | |||||
Sources:
(a)-(c) Original Pacemaker and Round 2 Bid Documents and Action Plans.
(d) Original Pacemaker and Round 2 Bid Documents and Action Plans. Since their submission, the unemployment rate may have changed.
(e) Training places are not available. The City Challenge output measure is a training week that is, more than 30 hours of weekly attendance for training. The data shown is a forecast, taken from draft 1993–94 decision letters and subject to revision.