HC Deb 11 January 1999 vol 323 cc76-7W
Mr. Rowlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what estimate his Department has made of the number of 16 and 17 year olds who are (a) in employment and (b) unemployed but have not qualified to NVQ level 2. [64746]

Mr. Hain

Estimates derived from the Labour Force Survey, for summer 1998, indicate that of the 34,000 16 and 17 year olds in employment, about 13,000 were not qualified to NVQ level 2 or equivalent. Figures on the numbers of unemployed 16 and 17 year olds not qualified to NVQ level 2 or equivalent cannot be reliably estimated.