To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will announce his proposals to reduce young male unemployment in north Tyneside.

The Employment Service and Tyneside training and enterprise council deliver a wide range of employment, enterprise and training programmes to help unemployed people in north Tyneside, including young men. In particular, the Employment Service and Tyneside TEC, together with the local authority, other local bodies and residents, are involved in action to help the regeneration of the Meadow Well estate.