Industrial Retraining Places

Mr. Gordon Wilson
asked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total number of Government industrial retraining places in each planning region of Great Britain; and if he will express the number of training places as a percentage of both the total insured work force and the total unemployed in each region.

Mr. Peter Morrison
This information is not available in the form requested. The following table shows the planned number of entrants to training courses being run under the auspices of the Manpower Services Commission's training opportunities scheme in each of teh Commission's training regions in 1981–82. ----------------------
|Regions             |
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|Scotland            |
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|Northern            |
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|Yorks and Humberside|
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|North-West          |
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|Midlands            |
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|Wales               |
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|South-West          |
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|South-East          |
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|London              |
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