§ Miss Wrightasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many young people in Birmingham are participating in the youth opportunities programme, in absolute numbers and expressed as a percentage of the 16 to 19 years age group.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonInformation is not available in the exact form requested. Between 1 April and the end of November 1981 some 10,300 young people entered the230W youth opportunities programme in Birmingham local authority district. This comprises virtually all those in the 16 to 19 years age group, eligible for the programme.
§ Miss Wrightasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the latest available rate at which participants in the youth opportunities programme are finding employment in (a) Birmingham and (b) the West Midlands.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonInformation is not available in the exact form requested. The most recent survey of entrants to work experience schemes in the youth opportunities programme covered a sample of those young people who entered the programme in Great Britain in the period April to June 1980. It showed that just under 30 per cent. of those questioned went straight into employment on leaving their schemes and that by the time of the survey six months later that figure had risen to just under 33 per cent. The survey results cannot be broken down below national level.