§ Mr. CallaghanTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what new measures he has planned to help young people in the north-west to find employment.
§ Miss WiddecombeThe local employment service and training and enterprise councils deliver a wide range of employment, enterprise and training programmes to help young people in the area find the best and quickest route to employment. In the north-west region, the number of young people in the guarantee group who have waited for more then eight weeks for a youth training place has fallen by 93 per cent. in the last year. The Government intend to improve the range of opportunities available to school leavers still further in the north-west and elsewhere by introducing modern apprenticeships in 1995.