§ Mrs. Shirley Williamsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many young people are currently engaged on youth opportunities programme programmes in (a) Merseyside and (b) in the Sefton district; and how many of those young people are on (i) work experience programmes and (ii) community industry or community service schemes.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonInformation is not available in the form requested. The following table gives the number of young people who entered various types of youth opportunities programme schemes in April 1982:
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Merseyside Sefton Work Experience on Employers' Premises 760 310 Community Projects 370 25 Training Workshops 70 —
Merseyside Sefton All Work Experience 1,200 335 Work Preparation 410 — Community industry is administered separately. On 13 May 1982 there were 873 young employees in community industry places in Merseyside, 90 of whom were based at the unit in Sefton.