HC Deb 06 December 1988 vol 143 cc149-50W
Ms. Armstrong

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total number and proportion of 16 and 17-year-olds in (a) northern region and (b) Durham, North-West constituency who are currently (i) in full-time employment, (ii) on recognised training schemes and (iii) unemployed.

Mr. Cope

The number of young people in training on YTS in the northern region on 31 October, the latest available date, was 33,200 and in Derwentside and Wear valley (the nearest approximation to north-west Durham constituency) 952. Comparable information at that date for 16 and 17-year-olds in full-time employment is not available.

There are now hardly any under 18-year-olds recorded as unemployed.