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Training Schemes

Volume 201: debated on Monday 16 December 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what percentage of (a) persons aged 16 years and (b) persons aged 17 years have been on youth training schemes in every year since youth training started in Scotland.

[holding answer 27 November 1991]: The percentage of (a) persons aged 16 years and (b) persons aged 17 years who have been on youth training schemes in every year since youth training started in Scotland is set out in the table.

Percentage of Scottish 16 and 17 year olds on Youth Training schemes 1
YearAge 162Age 173
Autumn 1982316·511·7
1983316·111·1
198418·012·1

Year

Age 162

Age 173

1985423·016·5
198620·816·4
198716·519·7
198816·222·0
January 198922·019·2
199019·917·3

1The figures relate to the numbers in training at a point in time during the year not to the total numbers who took part in a training programme in the course of a year. There is no available data on total participants.

2Age at the end of December up to 1988 and age at the end of August for 1989 and 1990.

3Includes trainees on the Youth Opportunities Programme.

4December 1985 extimate based on Youth Training figures for October 1985 and January 1986.