Unemployment: Young People Andrew Stunell To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many and what proportion of people aged 16 to 24 were not in education, employment or training in (a) each local authority area and (b) each region in each of the last 12 quarters for which figures are available. Kevin Brennan Table 1 and table 2 as follows show the number and percentage of people aged 16 to 24 not in education, employment or training by Government Office Region. These estimates are from quarterly Labour Force survey (LFS) data and are rounded to the nearest 1000. Table 3 shows the number and percentage of people aged1 16 to 24 not in education, employment or training by local education authority (LEA). These estimates are from the Annual Population survey (APS) which covers the period January to December. Due to the small populations of local authority areas, we have used the APS (which has a larger sample) to breakdown the estimates by LEA (larger geographical area). This enables us to provide more robust estimates. Please note that even for regions, sample sizes can be small and these estimates are subject to sampling variability. Confidence intervals, which indicate how accurate estimates are, are between 2 and 3 percentage points for these regional estimates, and between 3 and 10 percentage points for these local education authority estimates. Numbers have been rounded to the nearest thousand and estimates denoted with a ‘*’ means less than 1000 young people are estimated to be NEET in that area. 1Age used is the respondents academic age, which is their age at the preceding 31 August. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | |Q3 2006|Q4 2006|Q1 2007|Q2 2007|Q3 2007|Q4 2007|Q1 2008|Q2 2008|Q3 2008|Q4 2008|Q1 2009|Q2 2009| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |England |970,000|808,000|828,000|833,000|909,000|782,000|810,000|840,000|973,000|857,000|935,000|959,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |North East |53,000 |45,000 |48,000 |47,000 |52,000 |49,000 |52,000 |56,000 |65,000 |54,000 |57,000 |69,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |North West |140,000|120,000|127,000|134,000|144,000|120,000|136,000|139,000|151,000|142,000|156,000|155,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Yorks and Humber|118,000|95,000 |97,000 |92,000 |105,000|82,000 |75,000 |101,000|119,000|92,000 |107,000|121,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |East Midlands |81,000 |65,000 |72,000 |66,000 |81,000 |70,000 |69,000 |71,000 |86,000 |68,000 |69,000 |75,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |West Midlands |112,000|96,000 |111,000|107,000|111,000|93,000 |95,000 |98,000 |119,000|105,000|126,000|131,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |East of England |92,000 |77,000 |76,000 |84,000 |92,000 |74,000 |87,000 |77,000 |82,000 |79,000 |83,000 |82,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |London |184,000|148,000|119,000|130,000|136,000|123,000|129,000|132,000|149,000|131,000|127,000|120,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |South East |115,000|93,000 |107,000|112,000|125,000|116,000|104,000|111,000|131,000|122,000|130,000|142,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |South West |74,000 |68,000 |70,000 |61,000 |63,000 |56,000 |63,000 |55,000 |71,000 |63,000 |78,000 |66,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | |Q3 2006|Q4 2006|Q1 2007|Q2 2007|Q3 2007|Q4 2007|Q1 2008|Q2 2008|Q3 2008|Q4 2008|Q1 2009|Q2 2009| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |England |17 |14 |14 |14 |15 |13 |14 |14 |16 |14 |16 |16 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |North East |17 |14 |15 |15 |16 |15 |16 |17 |20 |17 |18 |21 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |North West |17 |14 |15 |16 |17 |14 |16 |16 |18 |17 |18 |18 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Yorks and Humber|18 |14 |14 |14 |16 |12 |11 |15 |18 |14 |16 |19 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |East Midlands |16 |12 |14 |13 |15 |13 |13 |13 |16 |13 |13 |14 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |West Midlands |18 |15 |18 |17 |18 |15 |15 |16 |19 |16 |20 |21 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |East of England |16 |13 |13 |14 |15 |12 |14 |13 |13 |13 |14 |13 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |London |21 |17 |14 |15 |16 |14 |15 |15 |16 |15 |14 |13 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |South East |13 |11 |12 |12 |14 |13 |12 |12 |14 |13 |14 |15 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |South West |14 |12 |13 |11 |11 |10 |11 |10 |13 |11 |14 |12 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------- | |2006 |2007 |2008 | --------------------------------------------------------- | |NEET |Percentage|NEET |Percentage|NEET|Percentage| --------------------------------------------------------- |England |849,000|15 |850,000|14|857,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Barking and Dagenham |6,000 |25 |4,000 |20|4,000|20| --------------------------------------------------------- |Barnet |3,000 |7 |1,000 |4|7,000|19| --------------------------------------------------------- |Barnsley |5,000 |19 |6,000 |23|5,000|19| --------------------------------------------------------- |Bath and North East Somerset|3,000 |10 |2,000 |9|2,000|9| --------------------------------------------------------- |Bedfordshire |7,000 |15 |7,000 |16|4,000|8| --------------------------------------------------------- |Bexley |4,000 |17 |3,000 |12|3,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Birmingham |30,000 |19 |30,000 |20|29,000|20| --------------------------------------------------------- |Blackburn with Darwen |3,000 |19 |3,000 |21|2,000|16| --------------------------------------------------------- |Blackpool |4,000 |22 |3,000 |20|2,000|12| --------------------------------------------------------- |Bolton |5,000 |14 |5,000 |14|4,000|12| --------------------------------------------------------- |Bournemouth |2,000 |7 |2,000 |11|3,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Bracknell Forest |1,000 |11 |1,000 |11|2,000|13| --------------------------------------------------------- |Bradford |12,000 |18 |12,000 |18|9,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Brent |7,000 |22 |5,000 |17|4,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Brighton and Hove |4,000 |11 |5,000 |13|4,000|12| --------------------------------------------------------- |Bristol |7,000 |13 |8,000 |15|9,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Bromley |5,000 |18 |5,000 |16|5,000|16| --------------------------------------------------------- |Buckinghamshire |5,000 |11 |4,000 |10|5,000|11| --------------------------------------------------------- |Bury |3,000 |17 |3,000 |19|3,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Calderdale |4,000 |17 |3,000 |13|4,000|18| --------------------------------------------------------- |Cambridgeshire |5,000 |8 |6,000 |9|8,000|11| --------------------------------------------------------- |Camden |4,000 |16 |3,000 |12|3,000|10| --------------------------------------------------------- |Cheshire |6,000 |8 |7,000 |9|9,000|13| --------------------------------------------------------- |Cornwall |5,000 |10 |7,000 |13|5,000|10| --------------------------------------------------------- |Coventry |6,000 |14 |6,000 |15|9,000|19| --------------------------------------------------------- |Croydon |2,000 |7 |6,000 |15|6,000|16| --------------------------------------------------------- |Cumbria |7,000 |16 |6,000 |12|2,000|5| --------------------------------------------------------- |Darlington |2,000 |20 |3,000 |24|1,000|12| --------------------------------------------------------- |Derby |4,000 |16 |5,000 |16|4,000|13| --------------------------------------------------------- |Derbyshire |14,000 |19 |13,000 |16|10,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Devon |9,000 |12 |11,000 |13|5,000|6| --------------------------------------------------------- |Doncaster |6,000 |20 |5,000 |14|8,000|22| --------------------------------------------------------- |Dorset |2,000 |5 |4,000 |11|3,000|8| --------------------------------------------------------- |Dudley |4,000 |11 |4,000 |14|8,000|19| --------------------------------------------------------- |Durham |13,000 |21 |8,000 |13|11,000|17| --------------------------------------------------------- |Ealing |5,000 |15 |6,000 |16|5,000|13| --------------------------------------------------------- |East Riding of Yorkshire |5,000 |14 |4,000 |11|5,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |East Sussex |4,000 |9 |7,000 |15|8,000|17| --------------------------------------------------------- |Enfield |5,000 |19 |4,000 |14|3,000|12| --------------------------------------------------------- |Essex |16,000 |11 |19,000 |13|21,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Gateshead |4,000 |18 |3,000 |15|4,000|21| --------------------------------------------------------- |Gloucestershire |9,000 |16 |6,000 |10|6,000|10| --------------------------------------------------------- |Greenwich |6,000 |22 |6,000 |26|4,000|16| --------------------------------------------------------- |Hackney |5,000 |22 |4,000 |17|5,000|20| --------------------------------------------------------- |Halton |2,000 |15 |2,000 |16|3,000|23| --------------------------------------------------------- |Hammersmith and Fulham |3,000 |14 |2,000 |11|2,000|12| --------------------------------------------------------- |Hampshire |14,000 |11 |19,000 |14|16,000|11| --------------------------------------------------------- |Haringey |8,000 |26 |4,000 |15|6,000|20| --------------------------------------------------------- |Harrow |* |* |2,000 |11|3,000|13| --------------------------------------------------------- |Hartlepool |2,000 |23 |2,000 |26|3,000|27| --------------------------------------------------------- |Havering |2,000 |9 |3,000 |12|2,000|7| --------------------------------------------------------- |Herefordshire |2,000 |10 |2,000 |12|2,000|12| --------------------------------------------------------- |Hertfordshire |15,000 |14 |13,000 |12|14,000|13| --------------------------------------------------------- |Hillingdon |4,000 |15 |6,000 |18|4,000|15| --------------------------------------------------------- |Hounslow |5,000 |16 |5,000 |16|6,000|22| --------------------------------------------------------- |Isle of Wight |2,000 |17 |2,000 |13|2,000|18| --------------------------------------------------------- |Islington |4,000 |20 |4,000 |15|3,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Kensington and Chelsea |3,000 |21 |2,000 |9|3,000|16| --------------------------------------------------------- |Kent |23,000 |16 |24,000 |17|25,000|17| --------------------------------------------------------- |Kingston upon Hull |6,000 |18 |8,000 |20|8,000|18| --------------------------------------------------------- |Kingston upon Thames |3,000 |17 |2,000 |11|2,000|11| --------------------------------------------------------- |Kirklees |9,000 |19 |9,000 |19|8,000|19| --------------------------------------------------------- |Knowsley |4,000 |20 |4,000 |22|5,000|20| --------------------------------------------------------- |Lambeth |5,000 |17 |5,000 |15|4,000|12| --------------------------------------------------------- |Lancashire |19,000 |14 |17,000 |12|21,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Leeds |11,000 |10 |16,000 |13|20,000|15| --------------------------------------------------------- |Leicester |7,000 |14 |7,000 |15|9,000|18| --------------------------------------------------------- |Leicestershire |6,000 |9 |6,000 |9|9,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Lewisham |5,000 |18 |6,000 |20|5,000|19| --------------------------------------------------------- |Lincolnshire |11,000 |16 |10,000 |14|10,000|13| --------------------------------------------------------- |Liverpool |10,000 |16 |11,000 |17|10,000|15| --------------------------------------------------------- |Luton |4,000 |18 |4,000 |17|4,000|16| --------------------------------------------------------- |Manchester |10,000 |13 |12,000 |15|13,000|16| --------------------------------------------------------- |Medway |5,000 |16 |4,000 |12|5,000|18| --------------------------------------------------------- |Merton |3,000 |13 |3,000 |14|3,000|15| --------------------------------------------------------- |Middlesbrough |4,000 |22 |4,000 |21|5,000|24| --------------------------------------------------------- |Milton Keynes |3,000 |16 |4,000 |14|2,000|9| --------------------------------------------------------- |Newcastle upon Tyne |5,000 |10 |5,000 |11|6,000|10| --------------------------------------------------------- |Newham |6,000 |18 |7,000 |18|4,000|12| --------------------------------------------------------- |Norfolk |11,000 |14 |12,000 |14|15,000|17| --------------------------------------------------------- |North East Lincolnshire |4,000 |23 |3,000 |17|4,000|21| --------------------------------------------------------- |North Lincolnshire |3,000 |15 |3,000 |18|2,000|15| --------------------------------------------------------- |North Somerset |1,000 |7 |* |*|2,000|7| --------------------------------------------------------- |North Tyneside |4,000 |18 |4,000 |17|4,000|20| --------------------------------------------------------- |North Yorkshire |6,000 |11 |6,000 |9|7,000|12| --------------------------------------------------------- |Northamptonshire |11,000 |14 |11,000 |13|12,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Northumberland |4,000 |14 |6,000 |17|4,000|11| --------------------------------------------------------- |Nottingham |8,000 |15 |8,000 |14|7,000|12| --------------------------------------------------------- |Nottinghamshire |12,000 |13 |10,000 |11|12,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Oldham |7,000 |24 |6,000 |25|7,000|25| --------------------------------------------------------- |Oxfordshire |7,000 |9 |11,000 |14|6,000|8| --------------------------------------------------------- |Peterborough |4,000 |20 |5,000 |22|4,000|20| --------------------------------------------------------- |Plymouth |5,000 |13 |5,000 |15|3,000|8| --------------------------------------------------------- |Poole |2,000 |15 |1,000 |10|2,000|12| --------------------------------------------------------- |Portsmouth |4,000 |15 |3,000 |9|3,000|8| --------------------------------------------------------- |Reading |2,000 |15 |2,000 |11|2,000|11| --------------------------------------------------------- |Redbridge |6,000 |22 |4,000 |16|4,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Redcar and Cleveland |3,000 |17 |3,000 |19|4,000|27| --------------------------------------------------------- |Richmond upon Thames |3,000 |22 |2,000 |14|2,000|12| --------------------------------------------------------- |Rochdale |6,000 |22 |3,000 |14|3,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Rotherham |7,000 |21 |5,000 |19|7,000|24| --------------------------------------------------------- |Rutland |* |* |* |*|*|*| --------------------------------------------------------- |Salford |5,000 |20 |4,000 |16|6,000|22| --------------------------------------------------------- |Sandwell |8,000 |23 |8,000 |24|9,000|26| --------------------------------------------------------- |Sefton |5,000 |15 |5,000 |16|7,000|19| --------------------------------------------------------- |Sheffield |12,000 |16 |12,000 |15|13,000|16| --------------------------------------------------------- |Shropshire |3,000 |11 |4,000 |15|3,000|10| --------------------------------------------------------- |Slough |3,000 |18 |2,000 |15|2,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Solihull |2,000 |12 |3,000 |16|4,000|18| --------------------------------------------------------- |Somerset |8,000 |15 |8,000 |13|7,000|13| --------------------------------------------------------- |South Gloucestershire |2,000 |7 |2,000 |9|2,000|7| --------------------------------------------------------- |South Tyneside |4,000 |24 |3,000 |15|3,000|16| --------------------------------------------------------- |Southampton |6,000 |14 |6,000 |18|4,000|10| --------------------------------------------------------- |Southend on Sea |2,000 |17 |3,000 |20|3,000|20| --------------------------------------------------------- |Southwark |7,000 |21 |6,000 |18|6,000|16| --------------------------------------------------------- |St Helens |4,000 |19 |5,000 |26|4,000|21| --------------------------------------------------------- |Staffordshire |8,000 |10 |10,000 |12|11,000|11| --------------------------------------------------------- |Stockport |4,000 |11 |4,000 |10|4,000|13| --------------------------------------------------------- |Stockton-on-Tees |4,000 |19 |5,000 |18|4,000|18| --------------------------------------------------------- |Stoke-on-Trent |7,000 |20 |7,000 |20|5,000|19| --------------------------------------------------------- |Suffolk |10,000 |15 |8,000 |11|11,000|16| --------------------------------------------------------- |Sunderland |5,000 |14 |5,000 |14|6,000|15| --------------------------------------------------------- |Surrey |9,000 |9 |12,000 |11|8,000|8| --------------------------------------------------------- |Sutton |3,000 |17 |4,000 |23|1,000|8| --------------------------------------------------------- |Swindon |2,000 |13 |1,000 |8|3,000|16| --------------------------------------------------------- |Tameside |5,000 |18 |6,000 |20|6,000|23| --------------------------------------------------------- |Telford and Wrekin |4,000 |20 |3,000 |15|3,000|15| --------------------------------------------------------- |Thurrock |2,000 |17 |2,000 |12|3,000|17| --------------------------------------------------------- |Torbay |2,000 |18 |2,000 |14|2,000|12| --------------------------------------------------------- |Tower Hamlets |10,000 |24 |9,000 |25|7,000|22| --------------------------------------------------------- |Trafford |4,000 |16 |3,000 |12|3,000|13| --------------------------------------------------------- |Wakefield |7,000 |19 |8,000 |17|7,000|16| --------------------------------------------------------- |Walsall |7,000 |21 |8,000 |24|5,000|17| --------------------------------------------------------- |Waltham Forest |4,000 |14 |5,000 |16|6,000|18| --------------------------------------------------------- |Wandsworth |2,000 |8 |3,000 |13|3,000|12| --------------------------------------------------------- |Warrington |2,000 |10 |2,000 |13|3,000|14| --------------------------------------------------------- |Warwickshire |8,000 |13 |7,000 |12|6,000|13| --------------------------------------------------------- |West Berkshire |3,000 |19 |2,000 |11|1,000|9| --------------------------------------------------------- |West Sussex |9,000 |13 |8,000 |11|8,000|11| --------------------------------------------------------- |Westminster |4,000 |11 |5,000 |14|5,000|15| --------------------------------------------------------- |Wigan |7,000 |21 |6,000 |17|5,000|13| --------------------------------------------------------- |Wiltshire |5,000 |13 |3,000 |9|7,000|15| --------------------------------------------------------- |Windsor and Maidenhead |1,000 |12 |2,000 |15|1,000|10| --------------------------------------------------------- |Wirral |6,000 |18 |6,000 |17|6,000|20| --------------------------------------------------------- |Wokingham |2,000 |9 |* |*|2,000|11| --------------------------------------------------------- |Wolverhampton |6,000 |21 |7,000 |23|9,000|29| --------------------------------------------------------- |Worcestershire |6,000 |12 |4,000 |8|5,000|8| --------------------------------------------------------- |York |5,000 |17 |4,000 |15|1,000|4| --------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Moss To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many young people were not in education, employment or training in (a) England and (b) North-East Cambridgeshire in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. Mr. Iain Wright [holding answer 16 September 2009]: I have been asked to reply. Estimates of participation in education, training and employment for those aged 16 to 18 are published by the Department in a Statistical First Release (SFR) each June and can be found on the Department's website http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000792/index.shtml These estimates cannot be broken down to constituency level. However, Connexions Services collect information on the number and proportion of 16 to 18-year-olds NEET in each local authority area. Figures for Cambridgeshire are shown in the following table. As the Connexions data set is calculated in a different way to the Department's official estimates set out above, comparative figures for England are also shown. Figures for Cambridgeshire are not available prior to 2006. ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | |2006 |2007 |2008 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |Cambridgeshire|Number |900 |840 |900 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |Proportion (percentage)|5.4 |5.0 |5.2 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |England |Number |126,500|109,300|110,890| ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |Proportion (percentage)|7.7 |6.7 |6.7 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- Through the September Guarantee, we are providing every young person aged 16 to 17 with a suitable offer of a place in learning. This has helped us to make excellent progress on participation, with a record level of 88 per cent. of 16 to 17-year-olds in education and training at the end of 2008, and the third consecutive fall in the proportion of 16 to 17-year-olds NEET. Connexions services provide advice and support to all young people and since April 2009, 18-year-old jobseekers who have been NEET for 26 weeks have received early entry to the additional support available through the new deal.