§ Mr. Sheermanasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many 16 and 17-year-olds in Great Britain were (a) in full-time education, (b) on youth training schemes and (c) unemployed in January, April, July and October in each of the years from 1979 to 1983 or 1984.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonComprehensive information is only available for January each year. Estimates for England and Wales for years up to January 1983 are published in the Department of Education and Science "Digest of Statistics, England 1983 (Tables 13 and 14)" and in an earlier Statistical Bulletin 2/83 "Education and Economic Activity of Young People aged 16–19 years in England and Wales from 1973–74 to 1981–82". Copies of these publications are available in the Library.
Provisional estimates for Great Britain in January 1984, with equivalent data for 1983, were given by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science in his reply to the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Mr. Forman) on 7 March at column 597.