HC Deb 24 June 1986 vol 100 cc111-2W
76. Mr. Park

asked the Paymaster General what are the latest figures on the proportion of people employed under the YTS who have retained their jobs after 12 months.

Mr. Trippier

The Manpower Services Commission conducts a monthly follow-up survey of all young people leaving YTS. A 10 per cent. sample of leavers is followed up in more detail. The latest figures available from the sample show that over three quarters of employed YTS trainees who completed their training were retained by the same employer. In addition, more than 10 per cent. were in work with a different employer.

Mr. Richard Page

asked the Paymaster General what percentage of YTS trainees obtain full-time employment (a) nationally and (b) in the Hertfordshire, South-West constituency.

Mr. Trippier

The Manpower Services Commission conducts a monthly follow-up survey of all young people leaving YTS. The latest results, covering those who left YTS between 1 April and 31 December 1985, show that 53 per cent. were in full-time work some three months after leaving YTS. A further 4 per cent. were in part-time work.

Information about YTS leavers in the Hertfordshire, South-West constituency is not available. However, latest results from Dacorum and Three Rivers local authority districts, which together cover most of the constituency, show that 72 per cent. of YTS leavers were in full-time work. A further 3 per cent. were in part-time work.

Mr. Ron Davies

askeds the Paymaster General why his Department has stopped publishing figures relating to numbers employed on YTS schemes.

Mr. Trippier

[pursuant to his reply, 23 June 1986, c. 14]: Figures showing numbers of young people taking part in YTS are published regularly in the Employment Gazette.

Mr. Ron Davies

asked the Paymaster General how many young people were employed on or about to leave YTS schemes in the United Kingdom in May

Mr. Trippier

[pursuant to his reply, 23 June 1986, c. 14]: At the end of May the latest date for which statistics are available there were 250,327 young people intraining on YTS. Approximately 11,000 young people left the scheme in May.