§ Mr. Boyesasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many students living in the borough of Sunderland and attending state schools in the borough left school in July 1984; how many got places on a youth training scheme; and how many have not yet had any kind of job.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe information is not readily available in the form requested. According to the Sunderland careers service, whose area covers Houghton le Spring, Washington and Sunderland, at 3 January 1985, of the 3,893 young people who left school or college in 1984 and registered with the careers service for employment, 2,690 (69 per cent.) were in the youth training scheme; 585 (15 per cent.) were unemployed; and the remaining 618 (16 per cent.) were in employment. Some of those unemployed had been on the youth training scheme or had a job since leaving full-time education and some of those in employment had also spent some time on the youth training scheme.