§ Mr. Goldingasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) how many young people who left school in Staffordshire in summer 1971 are now unemployed;
(2) how many 16 and 17-year-old registrants for employment are unemployed in Staffordshire.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithAt 14th February, 1,555 young people under 18 years of age were registered as unemployed in Staffordshire. Of these, 148 were school-leavers registering for their first job since terminating full-time education and 1,407 had already entered employment. The statistics do not separately distinguish those who were 16 and 17 years old, neither do they indicate how many of the unemployed schoolleavers left school in the summer of 1971.
§ Mr. Goldingasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many boys and girls in Staffordshire were registered as wholly unemployed on 24th January, 1971, and 24th January, 1972, respectively.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithAt 11th January, 1971, there were 426 boys and 251 girls registered as wholly unemployed in Staffordshire. The corresponding figures for 10th January, 1972, were 892 and 526. Information for the precise dates specified is not available.