§ Mr. McAvoyTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish the latest annual figures available on(a) the number of young people aged 25 years and under in the work force and (b) the number and proportion who are not in full-time or part-time employment; and if he will provide comparable information for each of the member states of the European Union. [1790]
§ Mrs. Angela KnightEstimates from the spring— March to May—1995 labour force survey show that there were 4,622,000 economically active people in the United Kingdom aged 16 to 24, of whom 706,000–15 per cent.—were International Labour Organisation unemployed.
The latest European comparisons on young people aged under 25 in the labour market are published by Eurostat in "Statistics in focus: Labour Force Survey Principal Results 1994". A copy of the publication is available in the Library.