asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many, by number and percentage, of those young people completing a youth opportunities programme or youth training scheme have transferred into immediate full-time employment at the end of the scheme, for each year since 1979.

[pursuant to his reply, 31 January 1985, c. 259]: Information is not available in the precise form requested. The table is based on sample surveys conducted under both the youth opportunites programme and the youth training scheme and relates, by and large, to young people who left schemes in or around June of each year. The figures show the percentage of young people responding who were in full-time employment at the time of the surveys.