§ Mr. Fosterasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether his Department makes any estimate of the total value of goods and services produced by young people on work experience placements in the youth opportunities programme.
§ Mr. AlisonNo such estimates are regularly made. But an MSC survey of sponsors of special programmes schemes, carried out in May 1981, estimated that the average trainee on a work experience on employer's premises scheme produced an output of £393 and the average trainee on a community project scheme produced an output of £1,500.