§ Mr. Thomas Coxasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many school leavers in each region of the United Kingdom have been unemployed since leaving school.
§ Mr. Jim LesterThe following table gives for the areas specified the provisional numbers of registered unemployed young people under 18 years of age who, at 9 October, had not been in employment since completing full-time education.
South-East … … 23,499 East Anglia … … 2,801 South-West … … 7,079 West Midlands … … 18,162 East Midlands … … 8,176 Yorkshire and Humberside 16,537 North-West … … 21,072 North … … 13,304 Wales … … 9,995 Scotland … … 16,404 Northern Ireland … … 8,628