To ask the Secretary of State for Employment at the end of October, November, December 1989 and January 1990, how many people of YTS eligible age registered with jobcentres or the careers service were awaiting an offer of a YTS place; and of them how many were receiving bridging allowance or extended child benefit or income support.

Only local careers services hold information on the total number of young people awaiting the offer of a YTS place. There is no central record.The number of young people receiving bridging allowance was as follows:

	Numbers
12 October	8,096
9 November	7,446
14 December	7,440
11 January	8,943

The number of young people whose parents were receiving extended child benefit is provided in the table:

	Numbers
29 October	14,639
26 November	13,461
31 December	12,652
28 January	1,104

Information on the number of young people receiving income support is not available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the latest figure for participants in the YTS scheme.

At 31 January 1990 there were 380,200 young people undertaking YTS training in Great Britain.