asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the proportions of youth training scheme leavers going to the following destinations for each available month of the 15 per cent. leavers sample and for each of the previous samples (a) full-time work with the same employer, (b) full-time work with a different employer, (c) part-time work, (d) full-time college or training course, (e) back at school, (f) on another youth training scheme, (g) claimant unemployed and (h) other; and if he will show for each survey (i) the proportion of respondents who had left the scheme early and (ii) the usable percentage response rate.
The Manpower Services Commission introduced a regular monthly survey of leavers from the youth training scheme in 1984. Questionnaires are sent to a 15 per cent. sample of all leavers in each month some three months after they leave the scheme. Leavers in June 1984 were the first group to
| Response to the Question "What are you doing now?" | ||||||||
| Ad Hoc Surveys Leavers between | 15 per cent Follow-Up Programme leavers in: | |||||||
| April 1983 and November 1983 | April 1983 and March 1984 | April 1984 and July 1984 | June 1984 | July 1984 | August 1984 | September 1984 | October 1984 | |
| In full-time work with same employer | 4 | 12 | 22 | 21 | 30 | 32 | 28 | 19 |
| In full-time work with different employer | 34 | 37 | 34 | 35 | 31 | 29 | 27 | 29 |
| In part-time work | * | * | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| On full-time course at college/training centre | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
| Back at school | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 |
| On another YTS Scheme | 29 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 9 |
| Doing something else | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Unemployed | 24 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 28 | 27 | 29 | 38 |
| Sample Details: | ||||||||
| Percentage who were early leavers | 100 | 90 | 64 | 56 | 44 | 33 | 37 | 56 |
| Percentage response | 53 | 55 | 70 | 67 | 67 | 65 | 68 | 63 |
| * Information not available. | ||||||||