§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish tables showing the percentage of those people who are registered as unemployed who are aged 24 years or under, according to the latest available figures, in each parliamentary constituency in(a) Great Britain and (b) England, and if he will publish the tables in rank order.
§ Miss WiddecombeOfficial unemployment rates are not available for areas smaller than the self-contained labour markets known as travel-to-work areas. Unadjusted data on claimant unemployment levels, by age, in each parliamentary constituency are available quarterly for the months of January, April, July and October from the NOMIS database in the Library.
§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people aged(a) 16 or 17 years and (b) 18 to 24 years living in (i) York parliamentary 333W constituency, (ii) North Yorkshire, (iii) Yorkshire and Humberside and (iv) Great Britain were registered as unemployed at April 1991.
§ Miss WiddecombeThe information requested is given in the following table:
Unadjusted claimant Unemployment by Age (April 1991) Under 18 18–24 York Parliamentary Constituency 1 1,127 North Yorkshire 15 4,712 Yorkshire and Humberside 285 64,296 Great Britain 3,027 632,710 Note: Since September 1988 and coinciding with the extension of a guaranteed Youth Training Scheme now Youth Training (YT) place to all those aged under 18 not in full time education or employment, those who decline an offer of a YT place are no longer entitled to unemployment-related benefits except in cases of severe hardship.