§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will estimate the number of those persons aged 16 and 17 years who are not undertaking a YTS placement.
Mr. JacksonThe latest, mid-1989, estimated total population figure of persons aged 16 and 17 years in Great Britain is 1,552,266. The number of persons in those age groups undertaking a YTS placement in July 1989 was 408,900.