§ Mr. Colvinasked the Secretary of State for employment (1) if he will publish a breakdown of the youth opportunities programme into work experience, work preparation and community industry schemes;
(2) if he will publish figures showing the breakdown by industry of work experience schemes within the youth opportunities programme.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonOn the 31 March 1981 there were some 143,000 approved work experience schemes and 3,000 approved work preparation courses in the youth opportunities programme.
The following table shows a breakdown of work experience schemes by industry on a percentage basis:
Industry Percentage of total Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 7.5 Engineering and Metal Industry 8.5 Other Manufacturing 8.0 Construction and Mining 6.5 Distributive Trades 28.5 Finance and Professional Services 6.0 Miscellaneous Services 24.5 Others not stated 10.5 Community industry (CI) is run separately from the youth opportunities programme although there are close links between the two. CI provides temporary employment for young people aged 16–18 who are socially or
182Wpersonally disadvantaged. On 31 March there was a national complement of some 6,000 places on CI. This is being increased to 7,000 places for 1981–82.