Yts Allowance

Mr. Corbett
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what plans he has to introduce an increase in the YTS allowance, age-related for 18-year-olds and over, in line with the principles set in April 1988 for income support claimants when rate liability was introduced.

Mr. Nicholls
I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the right hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ashley) on 15 March 1990, Official Report, column 340.