To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many young people are currently on YT schemes; and how many are awaiting places on YT schemes for each training and enterprise council area in England.
The number of young people who are currently on youth training (YT), and the number who are guaranteed a place and have been waiting for eight weeks or longer, for each training and enterprise council area in England, are provided in the following table.In April there were 5,300 young people who had been waiting for a YT place for more than eight weeks compared with 32,500 last September. This is a commendable achievement which I hope will continue.
| Young people on YT or wailing for a place on YT: 1993 | ||
| TEC | Number in training January 19931 | Waiting for more than 8 weeks April 19932 |
| Avon | 4,525 | 117 |
| AZTEC | 1,314 | 95 |
| Barnsley and Doncaster | 3,988 | 35 |
| Bedfordshire | 2,301 | 5164 |
| Birmingham | 35,188 | 131 |
| Bolton and Bury | 2,624 | 19 |
| Bradford | 3,199 | 18 |
| Calderdale and Kirklees | 3,306 | 15 |
| CAMBSTEC | 1,158 | 54 |
| Central England | 1,495 | 19 |
| Central London | 1,628 | 5152 |
| CEWTEC | 3,419 | 12 |
| CILNTEC | 2,322 | 109 |
| County Durham | 4,188 | 71 |
| Coventry and Warwicks | 4,283 | 586 |
| Cumbria | 3,755 | 6 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 6,945 | 571 |
| Dorset | 2,658 | 15 |
| Dudley | 1,863 | 1 |
| ELTEC | 4,214 | 29 |
| Essex | 6,572 | 329 |
| Gloucester | 3,023 | 11 |
| Greater Nottingham | 3,670 | 35 |
| Greater Peterborough | 1,611 | 17 |
| TEC | Number in training January 19931 | Waiting for more than 8 weeks April 19932 |
| Hampshire | 6,085 | 5304 |
| HAWTEC | 2,076 | 530 |
| Heart of England | 2,139 | 24 |
| Hertfordshire | 3,479 | 164 |
| Humberside | 6,245 | 36 |
| Isle of Wight | 576 | 28 |
| Kent | 5,695 | 183 |
| LAWTEC | 5,643 | 28 |
| Leeds | 2,799 | 26 |
| Leicestershire | 5,020 | 531 |
| LETEC | 4,534 | 380 |
| Lincolnshire | 3,789 | 39 |
| Manchester | 6,504 | 593 |
| Merseyside | 7,848 | 47 |
| METROTEC | 2,184 | 6 |
| Milton Keynes and North Bucks | 1,515 | 542 |
| Norfolk/Waveney | 3,963 | 31 |
| NORMIDTEC | 33,289 | 9 |
| North Derbyshire | 1,825 | 39 |
| North London | 1,657 | 579 |
| North Nottinghamshire | 3,043 | 55 |
| North West London | 879 | 107 |
| North Yorkshire | 2,843 | 559 |
| Northamptonshire | 2,478 | 539 |
| Northumberland | 2,094 | 58 |
| Oldham | 1,840 | 48 |
| QUALITEC | 1,621 | 16 |
| Rochdale | 1,729 | 15 |
| Rotherham | 1,811 | 9 |
| Sandwell | 1,951 | 20 |
| South and East Cheshire | 2,640 | 0 |
| Sheffield | 3,494 | 147 |
| Shropshire | 2,491 | 24 |
| SOLOTEC | 2,656 | 194 |
| Somerset | 2,374 | 5114 |
| South Derbyshire | 3,172 | 529 |
| South Thames | 2,744 | 451 |
| Staffordshire | 7,934 | 6 |
| Stockport and High Peak | 2,534 | 19 |
| Suffolk | 2,837 | 13 |
| Surrey | 1,934 | 599 |
| Sussex | 4,425 | 86 |
| Teesside | 5,716 | 56 |
| Thames Valley Enterprise | 3,327 | 5198 |
| Tyneside | 43,289 | 559 |
| Wakefield | 1,872 | 18 |
| Walsall | 1,350 | 12 |
| Wearside | 2,689 | 0 |
| West London | 2,415 | 48 |
| Wiltshire | 2,385 | 568 |
| Wolverhampton | 1,858 | 6 |
Sources:
1 Information from TEC Management Information return 31 January 1993 (Provisional).
2 Information from Careers Service Management return January (Supplement) 17 April 1993.
3 Information from TEC Management Information return 3 January1993.
4 Information from TEC Management Information return 6 December 1992.
5 These figures are subject to final confirmation.