§ Mr. Home Robertsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many young people left school in East Lothian in 1982; how many of them are in (a) full tune employment, (b) special schemes run by the Manpower Services Commission and (c) unemployed; and what proportion of those leaving the Manpower Services Commission schemes have been successful in finding employment in East Lothian in the last two years.
§ Mr. Alexander FletcherInformation on the number of school leavers in a particular session is available by 549W regional authority, but not for smaller areas. In the academic session 1981–82, the latest for which information is available, 12,277 young people left school in Lothian Region. Information on the subsequent destinations of these young people is not readily available.
At 31 March 1983, the latest date for which information is available, the Manpower Services Commission estimates that there were around 3,420 young people participating in the youth opportunities programme in Lothian region. On 14 April 1983 there were 2,469 school leavers under 18 unemployed in Lothian region. Information is not available on the number of young people leaving Manpower Services Commission schemes in Lothian region who have been successful in finding employment. However, information from the most recent survey for Scotland, undertaken in August 1982, shows that 51 per cent. of the sample of young people who had entered work experience schemes under the youth opportunities programme a year earlier were in employment shortly after leaving the programme