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Unemployment: Young People

Volume 460: debated on Tuesday 22 May 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people not in employment, education or training were aged (a) under 19, (b) under 21 and (c) under 25 years (i) in each constituency, (ii) local education authority and (iii) region in the latest period for which figures are available. (138118)

The following table shows the estimated number of young people aged 16-18 who were not in education, employment or training (NEET) in each local authority area and region. These figures are drawn from the operational client management systems maintained by Connexions Services. Connexions services do not report figures at constituency level or on young people aged under 21 or under 25 years.

The figures include 16-18 year olds known to the Connexions; young people who attended independent schools or were at school outside England may be excluded. The age relates to those of calendar year age 16-18 on the date of measurement. The figures are for the average percentage NEET between November 2006 and January 2007.

This NEET measure is that used for setting and monitoring local authority NEET targets. The definition differs from that used to measure the national departmental PSA NEET target. Along with not covering the entire population, the Connexions NEET measure excludes those on gap years, or in custody. The PSA measure is for academic rather than calendar age 16-18.

Estimated number of 16-18 year olds not in education, training or employment

16-18 year olds NEET

South East

14,070

Bracknell Forest

180

Reading

400

Windsor and Maidenhead

140

Slough

240

West Berkshire

240

Wokingham

150

Kent

2,970

Medway

620

Buckinghamshire

450

Milton Keynes

490

Oxfordshire

900

Portsmouth

460

Southampton

640

Isle of Wight

260

Hampshire

2,140

Surrey

960

Brighton and Hove

710

East Sussex

1,170

West Sussex

1,050

London

16,160

Camden

380

Islington

550

Kensington and Chelsea

190

Lambeth

510

Southwark

610

Wandsworth

400

Westminster

260

Barking and Dagenham

730

Bexley

480

City of London

10

Greenwich

840

Hackney

670

Havering

590

Lewisham

500

Newham

950

Redbridge

430

Tower Hamlets

680

Barnet

510

Enfield

690

Haringey

630

Waltham Forest

540

Bromley

510

Croydon

830

Kingston

180

Merton

200

Richmond

140

Sutton

340

Brent

450

Ealing

500

Hammersmith and Fulham

280

Harrow

360

Hillingdon

710

Hounslow

600

East of England

12,300

Bedfordshire

920

Luton

620

Cambridgeshire

900

Peterborough

610

Essex

2,890

Thurrock

450

Southend

530

Hertfordshire

1,670

Norfolk

2,040

Suffolk

1,780

South West

9,640

Bournemouth

400

Dorset

770

Poole

290

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

1,060

Devon

1,300

Plymouth

710

Torbay

320

Gloucestershire

920

Somerset

760

Bath and North East Somerset

260

Bristol

950

North Somerset

250

South Gloucestershire

390

Swindon

580

Wiltshire

740

West Midlands

16,240

Birmingham

3,920

Solihull

690

Dudley

840

Sandwell

1,140

Walsall

870

Wolverhampton

960

Coventry

950

Warwickshire

1,150

Herefordshire

290

Worcestershire

920

Shropshire

450

Telford and Wrekin

530

Staffordshire

2,050

Stoke on Trent

1,430

East Midlands

9,150

Derby

710

Derbyshire

1,480

Leicester

1,200

Leicestershire

1,080

Lincolnshire

1,130

Rutland

10

Northamptonshire

1,420

Nottinghamshire

1,220

Nottingham

930

Yorks and The Humber

16,310

East Riding of Yorkshire

620

Kingston upon Hull

1,330

North East Lincolnshire

660

North Lincolnshire

570

Barnsley

900

Doncaster

1,180

Rotherham

1,130

Sheffield

1,680

Bradford

1,560

Calderdale

640

Kirklees

1,420

Leeds

2,170

Wakefield

1,230

York

420

North Yorkshire

880

North West

21,530

Cheshire

1,260

Warrington

450

Cumbria

950

Bolton

1,170

Bury

550

City of Manchester

1,760

Oldham

750

Rochdale

720

Salford

750

Stockport

810

Trafford

490

Tameside

720

Wigan

1,140

Halton

540

Knowsley

690

Liverpool

2,040

Sefton

870

St. Helens

680

Wirral

1,210

Blackburn with Darwen

600

Blackpool

620

Lancashire

2,820

North East

10,360

Durham

2,060

Northumberland

980

Darlington

330

Stockton-on-Tees

610

Middlesbrough

870

Hartlepool

400

Redcar and Cleveland

610

Sunderland

1,320

Gateshead

750

Newcastle upon Tyne

1,120

North Tyneside

700

South Tyneside

550

All figures are rounded and regional totals may not, therefore, be the sum of authorities in the region.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what proportion of (a) 20-year-olds, (b) 21-year-olds, (c) 22-year-olds, (d) 23-year-olds and (e) 24-year-olds in each local education authority were not in employment, education or training in each of the last three years for which figures are available. (138362)

The information requested on (a) 20-year-olds, (b) 21-year-olds, (c) 22-year-olds, (d) 23-year-olds and (e) 24-year-olds not in employment, education or training, in each local authority area, is not available.

Data on young people not in education, employment or training collected by Connexions services is available only for young people aged 16 to 18.