To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his answer of 4 July, Official Report, column 607, if he will give the equivalent figures for the reduction in funding under youth training for those with special training needs.

[holding answer 18 July 1990]: In 1989–90, 26.5 per cent. of youth training expenditure in Orkney and 14.4 per cent. in Shetland related to special needs trainees. Information as regards the overall percentage of youth training expenditure in 1990–91 which relates to special needs trainees will not be available until total data for that financial year have been analysed.