YTS (Hansard, 12 December 1988)

§ Mr. Leighton
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the current average length of stay on YTS.

§ Mr. Cope
It is currently estimated that the average length of stay for entrants in 1988–89 will be 71 weeks for two-year entitlement trainees and 41 weeks for one-year entitlement trainees.

§ Mr. Meacher
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people of YTS eligible age, registered with jobcentres or the careers service were awaiting an offer of a YTS place; and how many of the unfilled places on the scheme available at those dates were on YTS schemes run by(a) employers and (b) agencies, at the end of October 1986, 1987, 1988 and at the most recently available date.

§ Mr. Cope
Information on the number of people of YTS eligible age awaiting an offer of a YTS place is not available nationally.
The number of unfilled places on schemes run by employers and agencies at 31 October 1986, 31 October 1987 and 31 October 1988, the latest available date, is given in the table.

Unfilled places

On schemes run by employers On schemes run by agencies

31 October 1986 56,465 72,996

31 October 1987 69,518 108,167

31 October 1988 59,403 59,055

§ Mr. Meacher
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many YTS trainees were in receipt of a board and lodging allowance to undertake training away from their home at the end of October 1986, 1987 and 1988, respectively.

§ Mr. Cope
I regret that the information requested is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

	Unfilled places
	On schemes run by employers	On schemes run by agencies
31 October 1986	56,465	72,996
31 October 1987	69,518	108,167
31 October 1988	59,403	59,055