§ 24. Mr. Strangasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many school leavers in Scotland are either unemployed or on the youth training scheme.
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§ Mr. Allan StewartThe term school leaver normally refers, in the unemployment context, to the number of 16 and 17-year-olds who have completed full-time education and have not had any subsequent employment.
At 9 February 1984, the latest date for which the information is available, there were 21,221 such young people in Scotland claiming benefit who had left school in 1982 and 1983. By the same date 33,687 school leavers had entered the youth traininge app scheme in Scotland, mostly at age 16, since the scheme's inception in 1983.