§ Mr. Harold Walkerasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what training facilities exist in the Doncaster travel-to-work area that can be used by the unemployed youth of the area;
(2) how many boys and girls under 18 years of age are unemployed in the Doncaster travel-to-work area; and what action he proposes to take to reduce the number;
(3) what are the percentages, for boys and girls, respectively, of those who left school in the Doncaster travel-to-work area at the end of the summer term 1971 and who are at present unemployed; and how these figures compare with national averages.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThere were 561 young people, 313 boys and 248 girls, registered as unemployed in the Doncaster travel-to-work area in February, 1972. Of these 97 were temporarily stopped and 104–72 boys and 32 girls—were school leavers. The great majority of the 2,300 young people who left school last summer have now found jobs, but the precise information requested is not available, as the statistics do not distinguish school leavers by term of leaving school. Sixty-one young people from the area are currently in training—56 under industrial training board schemes and five under the Vocational Training Scheme. The provision of further training will be considered when additional training capacity becomes available in the area. The Government's economic measures should improve job opportunities in the area.