§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons aged 16 and 17 years have not been offered places on YTS schemes in their own localities in each of the past 12 months.
§ Mr. Nicholls[holding answer 27 October 1989]: The Government guarantee the offer of a suitable YTS place to all young people under the age of 18 who are not in full-time employment or in full-time education who apply for one.
The guarantee continues to be met nationwide. At the end of September there were over 500,000 YTS places in contract, of which 110,821 were still unfilled.