§ Mr. Marlowasked the Secretary of State for Employment, for each of the last 12 months, what proportion of those on work experience on employers' premises for the three regions of highest unemployment level have immediately secured employment on termination of their scheme.
§ Mr. Jim Lester[pursuant to his reply, 26 June 1980, c. 237]: I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that the information is not available in the form requested.
A sample of young people leaving schemes is surveyed regularly. The sample is not large enough to provide separate regional results for work experience on employers' premises. For the four types of work experience scheme under YOP as a whole, the following table shows 561W the percentages of young people leaving the programme in the three regions of
Percentage of young people entering normal employment on leaving the programme Entrants to YOP September-October 1978 per cent. Entrants to YOP January 1979 per cent. Rate of unemployment (all age) at mid-1979 per cent. Northern 65 48 9.5 Wales 67 53 8.9 Scotland 68 64 8.8 BG 68 55 6.2 A sample survey of those entering the work experience element of YOP in June/July 1979 is in progress and the results will be available in the Autumn.