§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is his Department's estimate of (a) the number of children aged to 16 to 18 years who left school last summer, (b) the number of these that are now in full-time employment, (c) the number of these that are in full-time further or higher education, (d) the number of these that are undertaking training or part-time further or higher education, (e) the number of these employed under the job creation programme, and (f) the number of these employed in the work experience programme.
§ Mr. GoldingI regret that statistics of school leavers in the 1975–76 school year, including figures of those seeking to enter208W employment and those proceeding to further or higher education, are not yet available, and that it is not possible to distinguish school leavers from other young people who, since summer 1976, have entered employment, training or other special schemes for alleviating unemployment.