House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 10 Mar 2008 (pt 0044)

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Young People: Unemployment

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of (a) 16, (b) 17 and (c) 18-year-olds not in full-time education or
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training, broken down by local education authority area in the East of England. [169967]

Jim Knight: Estimates of participation in education, training and employment in England for those aged 16-18 are published annually by the Department in a Statistical First Release (SFR) each June (see following link; this also includes local participation estimates, but only for 16 and 17-year-olds).

http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000734/index.shtml

The Department also publishes local estimates of participation in England alongside the national figures, but these are only available for young people of academic age 16 and 17. The local participation estimates cover those in full-time education, part-time education, and Work Based Learning, but do not identify young people in employer funded training⁽¹⁾ or other education and training⁽²⁾ apart from those on a part-time education course. This means that young people on such training will be included in the “not in education or Work Based Learning” figure.

⁽¹⁾ Employer funded training covers employees who have received training in the past four weeks, other than those in Work Based Learning.

⁽²⁾ Other education and training covers young people who are studying but are not included in other categories. For example those attending independent colleges or training centres, or those at any college in part-time study not reported as released from job.

The most recent local estimates for local authorities in the East of England region relate to the end of 2005, and are shown in the following table. The equivalent national estimates, calculated on the same basis, are also shown for comparison.

Proportion of young people not in education or Work Based Learning by academic age, end 2005
	Percentage			Number^{( 1)}
	16 year olds	17 year olds	16 and 17 year olds	16 year olds	17 year olds	16 and 17 year olds
East of England Government office region	14	25	19	9,700	17,800	27,500

Local authorities
Bedfordshire⁽²⁾	11	20	16	900	1,700	2,600
Bedfordshire⁽³⁾	11	19	15	600	1,000	1,600
Luton⁽³⁾	12	22	17	300	600	900
Cambridgeshire⁽²⁾	11	26	19	1,000	2,600	3,700
Cambridgeshire⁽³⁾	11	25	18	800	2,000	2,700
Peterborough⁽³⁾	13	29	21	300	600	900
Essex⁽²⁾	17	29	23	3,700	6,200	9,900
Essex⁽³⁾	17	28	22	2,900	4,900	7,800
Southend-on-Sea⁽³⁾	18	27	22	300	600	900
Thurrock⁽³⁾	21	38	30	400	800	1,200
Hertfordshire⁽²⁾	8	17	13	1,200	2,300	3,500
Norfolk⁽²⁾	15	27	21	1,500	2,700	4,200
Suffolk⁽²⁾	16	25	20	1,400	2,200	3,700

England	14	24	19	91,900	160,800	252,700
⁽¹⁾ Numbers may not add because of independent rounding. ⁽²⁾ ‘Upper tier authorities’ (eg Bedfordshire) ⁽³⁾ ‘Lower tier authorities’ (eg Bedfordshire) Note: The lower tier areas combine to form the upper tier authorities

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