To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the date of, cause of and compensation paid in each fatality on a youth training scheme since 1979, or latest convenient date.
The information on dates and causes of fatalities is in the table.The Employment Department does not pay damages in compensation to families of trainees fatally injured on YT, or the former YTS. However, training providers are contractually obliged to obtain insurance to cover any claims to compensation or damages. Payments made by either insurance companies or YT training providers are a private matter between them and the trainees' families. The Employment Department is not informed of these settlements.
| Cause of fatality | Date |
| Lorry hit horse, trainee run over | 27 June 1983 |
| Trainee fell down disused mine shaft | 7 September 1983 |
| Trapped under fork lift truck | 12 October 1983 |
| Crushed by reversing tractor | 1 February 1984 |
Cause of fatality
| Date
|
| Road Traffic Accident | 27 July 1984 |
| Motorcycle accident | 22 August 1984 |
| Dumper truck overturned into stream | 24 September 1984 |
| Shock to lungs caused by burning | 28 January 1985 |
| Traumatic asphyxiation | 26 February 1985 |
| Electrocution | 29 July 1985 |
| Road Traffic Accident | 20 August 1985 |
| Road Traffic Accident | 7 May 1986 |
| Fall from ladder | 12 May 1986 |
| Road Traffic Accident | 30 June 1986 |
| Trapped whilst loading lorry | 3 October 1986 |
| Trapped whilst directing vehicle | 11 November 1986 |
| Electrocution | 26 November 1986 |
| Road Traffic Accident | 22 December 1986 |
| Trapped in farm silo | 4 March 1987 |
| Hit by girder carried on fork lift truck | 18 March 1987 |
| Road Traffic Accident | 13 April 1987 |
| Trapped under wheels of tractor | 17 August 1987 |
| Trapped under worktops | 23 October 1987 |
| Trapped between tractor and building | 16 November 1987 |
| Trapped in silage machine | 14 December 1987 |
| Knocked down by motorcycle | 12 January 1988 |
| Drowned at sea | 14 January 1988 |
| Killed in explosion | 5 August 1988 |
| Fall from ladder | 15 August 1988 |
| Digger bucket collapsed on trainee | 18 August 1988 |
| Road Traffic Accident | 14 September 1988 |
| Road Traffic Accident | 5 October 1988 |
| Road Traffic Accident | 2 November 1988 |
| Acetate caught fire | 2 November 1988 |
| Electrocution | 3 March 1989 |
| Fell through roof opening | 19 April 1989 |
| Trapped in fire | 18 May 1989 |
| Road Traffic Accident | 1 December 1989 |
| Crushed by dumper truck | 17 January 1990 |
| Decapitation at sea | 1 October 1990 |
| Caught in explosion | 18 January 1991 |
| Hit by car | 21 March 1991 |
| Found in building on fire | 21 March 1991 |
| Hit by speeding motorcycle | 19 September 1991 |