Mr. Andy Stewartasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement about the number of entrants to the youth training scheme in 1983–84.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonDuring 1983–84, the Manpower Services Commission compiled figures of the number of entrants to the youth training scheme by a manual information system. The monthly figures of the number of entrants produced by this system consisted only of the entrants about whom information was received in the month concerned. These figures, which produced a total of 353,979 entrants for the year, have been published by the commission previously.
The commission has now put the information about entrants into a computer system and has reallocated each entrant to the month in which he or she actually started training. The computer system also includes 16,241 entrants who commenced training in 1983–84 but about whom information was not received until after 31 March 1984 and who had not been included in the figures produced by the manual system. The actual total number of entrants to the scheme in 1983–84 is thus 370,220.
The table shows the monthly cumulative figures of entrants produced by the computer system and the comparable figures produced by the manual system:
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Month Cumulative recorded entrants* to YTS Computer System† Manual System‡ 1983 April 11,712 2,572 May 17,100 6,845 June 38,4392 1,228 July 65,950 45,874 August 123,074 88,334 September 231,809 169,478 October 280,173 246,817 November 303,598 286,900 December 313,141 304,309 1984 January 333,150 325,014 February 344,452 342,317 March 352,246 353,979 Total for year (with addition of Construction Industry Training Board entrants to the Computer system total) 370,220 353,979 Notes: * These figures represent the actual number of scheme starts including some second and subsequent starts where trainees have transferred between schemes. † The monthly figures do not include 17,974 Construction Industry Training Board entrants who were included in the manual system but who could not be included in the computer system. ‡ These figures do not include information about 16,241 entrants which was not received until after 31 March 1984.