asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will state, from the date of its inception and on an annual basis, the percentage of those who complete a youth training scheme course who go on to further education.

This information is not yet available. A regular follow-up programme of young people leaving the youth training scheme is now under way. Questionnaires are being sent to a 15 per cent. sample of leavers in each month a few months after they leave. Results from this programme will include the percentage of young people in full-time education or training at the time of the survey. Most of the trainees who completed their programme under the first year of the scheme left in August and September 1984 and information relating to these trainees should be available from late May.