To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many people under 25 years old were not in employment, education or training in Mid Bedfordshire constituency in (a) 1997, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008-09. (318039)

Due to small sample sizes, we are unable to provide estimates of the number of young people not in employment, education or training for parliamentary constituency areas.

The Annual Population survey can provide estimates for local education authorities. The latest Annual Population Survey data available are for 2008. Estimates of people not in employment, education or training are not available prior to 2000 due to data in earlier years being incomplete.

The number of young people not in employment, education or training in England is published by DCSF every quarter. The latest information can be found here:

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/STR/d000890/NEETQtrBriefQ32009.pdf