§ Rev. William McCreaasked the Secretary of State for Wales how many persons who left school at the end of each of the summer terms in 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983, in Wales are now (a) in full-time permanent employment, (b) in full-time education, (c) on various youth training or temporary schemes and (d) unemployed.
§ Mr. Nicholas EdwardsInformation in the form requested is available only in respect of 1983 and covers only 16-year-olds eligible to leave school in Wales that year. The figures based on information known to the careers service as at October 1983 showed that of 43,411 leavers 44 per cent. remained in school or full-time education, 37 per cent. were in youth training schemes or unemployed or awaiting a place on youth training schemes and 12 per cent. in employment. No firm information was available about the remaining 7 per cent. but some part would have found employment.
Some additional information on an England and Wales basis and covering 16 to 17-year-olds at January each year is available in tables 13 and 14 of the "Digest of Statistics 1983" published by the Department of Education and Science, together with an earlier statistical bulletin 2/83 Educational and Economic Activity in People aged 16 to 19 Years in England and Wales from 1973/74 to 1981/82". Copies of these publications are available in the Library.