HC Deb 08 July 1993 vol 228 cc257-8W
Mr. Leighton

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many early leavers on youth training in each of the last five years in the London East area had completed(a) 10, (b) 20, (c) 30, (d) 40, (e) 50, (f) 60, (g) 70, (h) 80, (i) 90 and (j) 104 weeks of their course.

Persons employed full/part-time and self-employedGreat Britain
(thousands)
Employment status in main job Spring 1990 Spring 1991 Spring 1992 Winter 1992/93
Employees
Full-time1 17,199 16,758 16,234 15,983
Part-time1 5,055 5,117 5,159 5,145
Self-employed 3,472 3,318 3,131 3,046
People with two jobs: one as self-employed and one as employee2 308 309 281 272
1 The definition of full and part-time is based on respondents own assessment.
2 Self-employed job may be either main or second job.

Source: Labour Force Survey (not seasonally adjusted).

Miss Widdecombe

Information is not available in the exact form requested. The following table gives a breakdown of early leavers by length of stay in weeks for the London East area for the last five years.

Youth training—duration on scheme of early leavers1 East London training and enterprise council area April 1988 to March 1993
Percentage
Weeks 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 21992–93
0–4 14 14 17 18 16
5–8 12 15 11 11 14
9–13 11 12 10 11 11
14–26 19 21 19 22 18
27–39 13 11 14 11 12
40–47 7 6 6 5 7
48–52 4 3 3 3 3
53–65 8 8 7 7 6
66–78 5 4 4 4 5
79–91 4 3 5 4 4
92–99 3 2 3 2 3
100–104 4 0 4 4 4
105+ 4 4 1 2 2
DK/NA3 0 0 4 4 0

Source: YT Leavers Database.

Notes:

1 Early leavers are those whose actual completion date was earlier than anticipated at the time they started training. This group will include those starting employment and those who subsequently take up another youth training course or a full-time course elsewhere.

2 1992–93 figures are provisional.

3 DK/NA stands for not known or not answered. A very small proportion of returned leavers certificates are not fully completed. In this case a very few certificates did not have sufficient information to work out the length of stay in training.

4 Less than 0.5 per cent.