§ Mr. Sheermanasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list all the local education authorities which have (a) applied and (b) been accepted to participate in the technical and vocational education initiative.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe information requested is set out as follows by the academic year in which the proposed project is or was due to start. No decisions have been taken about applications for 1985–86.
For projects to start at the beginning of the academic year: 1983–84
Applied Local Education Authority Barnet Kingston upon Thames Barnsley Leeds Bedfordshire Leicestershire Berkshire Lincolnshire Bexley Liverpool Birmingham Merton Bradford Mid-Glamorgan Bromley Newcastle upon Tyne Buckinghamshire Newham Cambridgeshire Norfolk Cheshire Northamptonshire Clywd Northumberland Cornwall North Yorkshire Coventry Oxfordshire Cumbria Redbridge Derbyshire Rochdale Devon Sandwell Doncaster Solihull Dorset Somerset Dudley South Tyneside Dyfed Staffordshire Ealing Stockport East Sussex Suffolk Enfield Surrey Gateshead Tameside Gloucestershire Walsall Hampshire Waltham Forest Haringey Warwickshire Harrow West Glamorgan Hereford and Worcester West Sussex Hertfordshire Wigan Hertfordshire Wiltshire Hillingdon Wirral Isle of Wight Kent
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Accepted Barnsley Bedfordshire Bradford Birmingham Clywd
Devon Staffordshire Enfield Wigan Hereford and Worcester Wirral Leicestershire Sandwell 1984–85
Applied Local Education Authority Barnet Berkshire Bexley Northamptonshire Bolton Northumberland Bromley North Tyneside Buckinghamshire North Yorkshire Bury Oxfordshire Calderdale Powys Cambridgeshire Redbridge Cheshire Richmond Cleveland Rochdale Cornwall Salford Coventry Sheffield (withdrew) Croydon Shropshire Cumbria Solihull Derbyshire Somerset Doncaster South Tyneside Dorset Stockport Durham Suffolk Dudley Sunderland Dyfed Surrey Ealing Tameside West Sussex Walsall Essex Waltham Forest Gateshead Warwickshire Gloucestershire West Glamorgan Gwent West Sussex Gwynedd Wiltshire Hampshire Wolverhampton Haringey Harrow Education Authority* Havering Borders Isle of Wight Central Kent Dumfries and Galloway Kingston upon Thames Fife Kirklees Lothian Leeds Strathclyde Lincolnshire Tayside Merton Western Isles Mid-Glamorgan Newcastle upon Tyne * Scotland joined the Technical and Vocational Norfolk Initiate in 1984.
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Accepted Berkshire Bolton Kirklees (withdrew) Buckinghamshire Leeds (withdrew) Bury Lincolnshire Cambridgeshire Mid-Glamorgan Cheshire Newcastle upon Tyne Cleveland Norfolk Cornwall Northamptonshire Coventry North Tyneside Croydon Northumberland Cumbria Powys Derbyshire Richmond Doncaster Shropshire Dorset (withdrew) Solihull East Sussex Somerset Durham South Tyneside Dudley Stockport Essex Suffolk Gloucestershire Sunderland Gwent Surrey Gwynedd Tameside Hampshire Warwickshire Havering West Glamorgan Isle of Wight
Education Authority Fife Borders Strathclyde Dumfries and Galloway
1985–86 Applications Only Local Education Authority Bexley Bromley West Sussex Dyfed Wiltshire Ealing Wolverhampton Hillingdon Kent Education Authority Kingston upon Thames Lothian North Yorkshire Strathclyde Nottinghamshire Tayside Redbridge Western Isles South Glamorgan Walsall
Estimates of Education/Labour Market Status of Young People Great Britain (January each year) Aged 16* 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 No (000) Per cent. No (000) Per cent. No (000) Per cent. No (000) Per cent. No (000) Per cent. Total population† 900 100 920 100 930 100 910 100 900 100 Full-time education 380 42 400 44 440 48 440 49 410 45 — Schools 260 28 270 30 290 32 290 32 280 31 — Further education‡ 120 13 130 14 150 16 150 17 130 14 YTS/YOP 50 6 100 10 130 14 170 19 220 25 Claimant/registered unemployed║ 50 6 110 12 110 12 130 14 110 13 Other¶ (mainly employed outside YTS) 420 47 310 34 250 26 170 19 160 18 Aged 17* Total population† 880 100 900 100 930 100 930 100 910 100 Full-time education 220 25 260 28 260 28 290 32 280 31 — Schools 140 16 160 18 160 17 180 19 170 19 — Further education‡ 80 9 100 11 100 11 120 12 110 12 YTS/YOP 20 2 40 4 50 5 70 7 50 6 Claimant/registered unemployed║ 80 9 120 14 160 17 160 17 160 17 Other¶ (mainly employed outside YTS) 560 64 490 54 460 50 410 44 420 46 Notes: * Ages as at 31 August of preceding year. † Estimates for 1980 and 1981 are based on pre-1981 Census information. ‡ Excluding YTS/YOP. ≑ Claimant unemployed for 1983 and 1984; registered unemployed prior to 1983. ¶ Mainly those in employment outside YTS. Also includes some who are seeking work but not claiming benefit (for 1983 and 1984) or not registered for employment (prior to 1983), some who are neither employed nor seeking work (eg because of domestic responsibilities) and net errors in the other estimates. Estimates are rounded to the nearest 10,000.
§ Mr. Sheermanasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the number and percentage of unemployment among 16 and 17-year-olds (a) nationally, (b) by ethnic origin, (c) by region and (d) by sex at the last available date and for September, January and June in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkInformation on unemployed persons under 18, nationally and regionally by sex for January, April, July and October for each of the past five years, is available in the House of Commons Library. The unemployment rates for under 18-year-olds by sex since January 1980 appear in table 2.15 of the December 1984 issue ofEmployment Gazette; however, unemployment rates by age are not available by region.
Following the change in the basis of the unemployment