To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry pursuant to the answer of 20 February 2007, Official Report, column 658W, on MG Rover, in which sectors the 100,000 jobs have been created; what the locations are of the 1,000 hectares of brownfield land which have been reclaimed; and what initiatives (a) Advantage West Midlands, (b) the Learning and Skills Council and (c) Birmingham City Council have put in place to assist unemployed former employees of MG Rover and its suppliers. (124757)

Advantage West Midlands does not collect data in the form asked. The agency does have data which disaggregate the jobs total by whether they are jobs in rural, urban or disadvantaged areas but these data are only available from 2005-06 onwards. The sector data are not available and to disaggregate the totals by sector can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Similarly the total figure of 1,000 hectares of brownfield land which have been reclaimed cannot be disaggregated in the way requested, except at disproportionate cost.

AWM is able to account for 459 hectares of brownfield sites reclaimed since 2003. The remaining 541 hectares were acquired through legacy projects funded by other agencies and programmes, such as the SRB programme and English Partnership.

MG Rover

Following the highly successful work of the MG Rover Task Force over 95 per cent. of ex-MG Rover employees are now back in work. The remaining 260 job seekers are able to access a number of initiatives delivered in partnership by AWM, the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and Birmingham city council. These are:

South West Business Connections, led by Birmingham city council

Work for you Project—Partnership project between AWM and Birmingham city council

Working for jobs—initiative involving AWM, LSC and Job Centre Plus

Northfield and Longbridge Uplift Project—led by Birmingham city council