§ Mr. Snapeasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many young people have registered at careers offices in each of the travel-to-work areas in the West Midlands in the last month for which statistics are available.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe following table gives the numbers of unemployed young people registered at careers offices in the areas specified at 11 March:
Birmingham* 7,004 Burton-on-Trent 366 Coventry* 2,578 Dudley and Sandwell 2,471 Evesham 65 Hereford 276 Kidderminster* 422 Leamington 233 Ledbury † Leek 132 Leominster 42 Ludlow 60 Market Drayton 77 Oakengates 859 Oswestry 105 Redditch 372 Ross-on-Wye 39 Rugby 386 Shrewsbury 277 Stafford* 319 Stoke-on-Trent* 1,317 Stratford-on-Avon 144 Uttoxeter † Walsall* 2,366 Whitchurch † Wolverhampton* 2,288 Worcester* 619 * Travel-to-work area comprising two or more employment office areas. † No separate careers office figures are available for these areas. The statistics of young people who register at the Ledbury and Uttoxeter part-time careers offices are included, but not separately identified, in the figures for Hereford and Burton-on-Trent, respectively. There is no careers office in Whitchurch and most young people from this area register at the Market Drayton careers office.