§ Dr. Hampsonasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give a regional breakdown of the number of Easter school leavers who are still registered as unemployed.
§ Mr. John FraserThis information is not readily available and could not be obtained without disproportionate cost. Statistics of unemployed school leavers do not define the date of leaving school.
§ Mr. Moonmanasked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the job prospects in Essex and the region in which it is situated for the boys and girls who will be leaving school at the end of July.
§ Mr. John FraserIt is still too early to make reliable estimates. Employment prospects for school leavers in the South-East as a whole are satisfactory, though there may be local difficulties in parts of Essex. The number of vacancies immediately available for school leavers will be shown in the next monthly count; but the process of settling them into employment normally extends over the period July to November.
§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the numbers of young people who left school in (a) July 1974 and (b) in April 1975 who are still unemployed in each London borough.
§ Mr. John FraserThis information is not readily available and could not be obtained without disproportionate cost. Statistics of unemployed school leavers do not define the date of leaving school.