To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish details for each of the standard economic regions within Great Britain for each year from April 1986 to the most recent date, the number of contracted YTS places (a) in total and (b) contracted to schemes specifically catering for trainees with disabilities.

Details for each of the standard economic regions within Great Britain for each year from April 1986 to the most recent date, the number of contracted YTS places (a) in total; and (b) contracted to schemes specifically catering for trainees with disabilities are as follows:

	11987	11988	11989	11990
Scotland	55,384	63,285	62,493	60,989
Northern	35,155	42,288	39,781	37,490
North West	78,406	90,069	81,112	76,962
Yorkshire and Humberside	53,592	60,987	61,469	60,197
Midlands	68,136	77,342	68,962	62,067
Wales	31,061	32,311	29,019	29,326
South West	36,427	46,363	43,397	41,282
South East	59,266	66,301	58,907	58,722
London	37,249	36,320	30,383	32,699
East Midlands and East	58,510	68.455	61,533	60,679
Great Britain	513,186	583,721	537,056	520,413
1 To the 31 March

The figures showing the number of YTS places contracted to schemes specifically catering for trainees with disabilities are not available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list and make available any research on young people with disabilities and YTS undertaken or commissioned by the Manpower Services Commission, the Training Commission and the Training Agency.

Reports of relevant research are listed and include reports on young people with special training needs in YTS where disability issues are a major component of the research concerned. I will place copies of these documents in the Libraries of both Houses

—Going on YTS: The recruitment of young people with disabilities;

—Note on YTS experience of young people with special training needs;

—Young people with special training needs: the survey report;

—Employer involvement in special training needs training.