§ Mr. McAllionTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will estimate how many 16 and 17-year-olds who are not still in education deliberately choose to remain on social security rather than take a job or accept a training place.
§ Mr. ScottI refer the hon. Member to the information contained in my hon. Friend's reply to the hon. Member for Barnsley, West and Penistone (Mr. McKay) on 7 December 1987, at column57, and also to the reply which my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Employment gave to the hon. Member for Coventry, South-East (Mr. Nellist), on 17 November 1987, at column 509.