§ Mr. HardyTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what proportion of(a) boys and (b) girls leaving school and not continuing in full-time education or training became unemployed in the Rotherham and Mexborough travel-to-work area in 1993 and in 1994. [27914]
§ Mr. Paice[holding answer 15 June 19951: The information is not available in the form requested. Figures are available only by the areas covered by the Rotheram careers service and the Doncaster careers service. The information is taken from figures published by the local authority associations.
The following table shows the total number of statutory school leavers in both Rotherham and Doncaster in 1993 and 1994, and the numbers who at the date the information was collected were known to have been unemployed.
Total number of school leavers Known to have been unemployed Date information collected Boys Girls Boys Girls Rotherham October 1993 1,537 1,460 97 60 November 1994 1,617 1,524 112 75 Doncaster November 1993 1,622 1,657 112 74 November 1994 1,790 1,618 129 80