Current status: Answered by Angela Constance on 7 August 2012
To ask the Scottish Government how many modern apprenticeships were created in the (a) Annandale East and Eskdale, (b) Annandale North, (c) Annandale South, (d) Nith, (e) Lochar and (f) Mid and Upper Nithsdale ward in (i) 2011-12 and (ii) 2006.
Skills Development Scotland (SDS), who have operational responsibility for national training programmes including modern apprenticeships (MAs), do not gather statistical information broken down as far as council ward level.
MA start numbers in Dumfries and Galloway Local Authority area in 2006-07 and 2011-12 are provided in response to your question S4W-08661 on 7 August 2012.
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