§ Mr. Matthew TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give a breakdown of(a) female enrolment and (b) total enrolment in each youth training scheme course since 1985.
§ Mr. John CopeThere are currently around 5,000 individual schemes operating in YTS. At the end of March 1988 there were 389,100 young people in training on YTS, of whom 43 per cent. were young women. This proportion of young women has remained constant since 1985.
Information in the form requested is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.