§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the average weekly take-home pay for YTS leavers in the economic region of Yorkshire and Humberside; and what steps he is currently taking to review this.
§ Mr. CopeEstimates from the youth cohort study for England and Wales, covering those young people who reached minimum school leaving age in the academic year 1984–85 and were surveyed in spring 1988, show that the average weekly take-home pay for those in a job in the economic region of Yorkshire and Humberside who said that they had had YTS experience within the previous three years was £71.27.
The Government are continuing to fund the youth cohort study to establish information on this and other areas in the education, training and employment of young people.