To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many young people have been engaged in employer-based YTP courses in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.
The number of trainees fluctuates during the year but the average number was as follows:
| Financial year | Average Occupancy |
| 1987–88 | 1,495 |
| 1988–89 | 1,949 |
| 1989–90 | 2,864 |
| 1990–91 | 3,170 |
| 11991–92 | 3,473 |
| 1 April to January. | |
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many young people have been engaged in YTP courses in community-based workshops in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.
The number of trainees fluctuates during the year but the average number engaged in the YT programmes in community-based workshops was:
| Average occupancy | |
| 1987–88 | 3,291 |
| 1988–89 | 3,039 |
| 1989–90 | 3,229 |
| 1990–91 | 3,746 |
| 11991–92 | 4,427 |
1 April to January. |
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many teachers have been employed by each of the education and library boards in YTP provision in each of the last five years.
The numbers are as follows:
| Academic Year | |||||
| Education and Library Board | 1986–87 | 1987–88 | 1988–89 | 1989–90 | 1990–91 |
| Belfast | 144 | 147 | 150 | 156 | 116 |
| North-Eastern | 97 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 61 |
| South-Eastern | 94 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 77 |
| Western | 75 | 79 | 79 | 80 | 52 |
| Southern | 76 | 79 | 78 | 78 | 50 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many young people are presently engaged on youth training courses in Northern Ireland; and how many have been engaged in such courses in each of the last five years.
The number of young people participating in the youth training programme at 31 January 1992 was 14,702. The numbers engaged in such courses in each of the last five years were as follows:
| Average occupancy | |
| 1987–88 | 8,778 |
| 1988–89 | 8,881 |
| 1989–90 | 9,818 |
| 1990–91 | 12,914 |
| 11991–92 | 15,688 |
| 1 April-January. | |
| Average occupancy | |
| 1987–88 | 2,841 |
| 1988–89 | 4,447 |
| 1989–90 | 2,411 |
| 1990–91 | 911 |
| 11991–92 | 4 |
| 1 April-January. | |