§ Mr. GarnierTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were employed in the textile industry, the clothing industry and the mining industry in the east midlands in each year since 1980.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe available information on regional employment for the industries requested is from the censuses of employment taken in 1981, 1984, 1987 and 1989. Data for the east midlands can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the Library, subject to the confidentiality restrictions of the Statistics of Trade Act 1947.
§ Mr. AlisonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will list the highest level of unemployment recorded in each of the three travel-to-work areas covered by the Selby district for each year since 1986.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe information requested can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the Library.
§ Mr. MartlewTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to her answer of 1 December,Official Report, column 173, how many people aged 16 and 17 years in the Carlisle travel-to-work area are not in employment, not on a youth training scheme and not in full-time education.
§ Mr. McLoughlinIn October 1992, there were 18 unemployed claimants aged 16 and 17 years in Carlisle travel-to-work area.
Changes to the benefit regulations in September 1988 coincided with the extension of a guaranteed youth training scheme (now youth training) place to all those aged under 18 not in full-time education or employment, which meant that those who declined an offer of a YTS place were no longer entitled to benefit. However, there are still a small number of under 18-year-olds entitled to benefit due to special circumstances, such as severe hardship or by virtue of their being orphans.