§ Mr. Lawlerasked the Paymaster General what ethnic breakdown he has of current YTS participants or of those who have recently left the scheme.
§ Mr. TrippierThe most recently available information on the ethnic group of YTS participants who entered under two-year YTS rules relates to trainees in training at 10 November 1986. The data are as follows:
Number Ethnic Group 1 (White) 319,797 Ethnic Group 2 (Black/African/Caribbean descent) 5,937 Ethnic Group 3 (Indian Sub-continent descent) 5,042 Ethnic Group 4 (None of these) 2,102 Ethnic Group 5 (Prefers not to say) 3,280 Total 336,158 The latest group of leavers from YTS for whom information is available are those who left one-year YTS training programmes between April and June 1986. Of the 82,820 leavers in this period, 79,140 were recorded as "white", 1,510 as of "black/African/Caribbean descent", 1,010 as of "Indian sub-continent descent" and 1,160 as "all others".
The number of ethnic group categories changed from four to five with the introduction of two-year YTS.