§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Employment, for each region of Great Britain, what are the estimates produced by the careers service for the Manpower Services Commission of the number and proportion of (a) 16-year-olds and (b) 17-year-olds who will (i) stay on in school or further education and (ii) leave school and join the labour market and of those (1) get work and (2) remain unemployed, for 1982–83 figures; and what were the figures for earlier years.
§ Mr. Peter Morrison[pursuant to his reply, 9 July 1984, c. 397]: The information is as follows. The figures represent the careers service's best estimates of the destinations of 16 and 17-year-olds who were eligible to leave school in the academic year 1982–83. They are based on the information available to the service in November 1983 when the destination of many school leavers was still not known. Figures are not available for previous years.
Region (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) Total (b+c) School/FE Labour Market (d+c) Employed outside YTS Unemployed/ YTS 16-year-olds* Northern 42,222 14,292 27,930 6,651 21,279 Percentage — 34 66 24 76 Yorks. & Humb. 78,685 30,583 48,102 16,618 31,484 Percentage — 39 61 34 66 North West 109,904 44,430 65,474 21,780 43,694 Percentage — 40 60 33 67 Midlands 145,062 58,579 86,483 28,958 57,525 Percentage — 40 60 33 67 South West 63,067 26,975 36,092 16,177 19,915 Percentage — 43 57 45 55 South East 175,501 87,570 87,931 43,035 44,896 Percentage — 50 50 49 51 London 88,704 45,324 43,380 20,715 22,665 Percentage — 51 49 48 52 Wales 43,267 20,402 22,865 6,534 16,331 Percentage — 47 53 29 71 Scotland 67,787 38,719 29,068 8,731 20,337 Percentage — 57 43 30 70 17-year-olds* Northern 10,567 7,854 2,713 838 1,875 Percentage — 74 26 31 69 Yorks. & Humb. 22,125 15,348 6,777 3,736 3,041 Percentage — 69 31 55 45 North West 28,485 21,671 6,814 2,581 4,233 Percentage — 76 24 38 62 Midlands 36,253 27,384 8,869 4,007 4,862 Percentage — 76 24 45 55 South West 17,022 12,453 4,569 2,687 1,882 Percentage — 73 27 59 41 South East 61,827 44,048 17,779 10,163 7,616 Percentage — 71 29 57 43 London 35,713 23,793 11,920 6,536 5,384 Percentage — 67 33 55 45 Wales 14,545 10,595 3,950 1,676 2,274 Percentage — 73 27 42 58 Scotland 49,119 28,255 20,864 7,853 13,011 Percentage — 58 42 38 62 * 1982–83.