asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many young people between the ages of 16 and 19 years have been unemployed for more than one year; and how this compares with the figures for 1978, 1979 and 1980.
The following table gives for Great Britain the number of young people under 20 years of age who had been unemployed for more than 52 weeks at January each year from 1978.
January each year
| |
| 1978 | 19,720 |
| 1979 | 17,761 |
| 1980 | 14,058 |
| 1981 | 22,993 |
| 1982 | 67,965 |
Young people who are unemployed can benefit from taking part in the youth opportunities programme, which provides courses of work experience and training appropriate to their needs.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of the total number of unemployed people is under the age of 25 years.
At 14 January, the latest date for which an analysis by age is available, 37ยท4 per cent. of those registered as unemployed in Great Britain were under 25 years of age.