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Dept for Education and Skills

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Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many young people aged between (a) 16 and 18, (b) 18 and 21 and (c) 21 and 25 years in each parliamentary constituency were not in education, employment or training in 2004. [216423] Mr. Ivan Lewis: [holding answer 21 February 2005]: The percentage of 16 to 19-year-olds and 20 to 24-year-olds who were not in education, employment or training (NEET) are given for each local education authority (LEA) in the table. These figures have been produced by combining information from the local Labour Force Survey for the last three years, to reduce the error margins around the NEET percentages. However, sample sizes are still very small due to the narrow age bands and small geographic area. The rates are volatile and care should be taken when interpreting the figures. An estimate of the confidence interval is provided, to aid with interpretation. Where fewer than 10 people who took part in the survey in a given LEA were NEET, the information has been suppressed as it would be potentially disclosive or particularly unreliable. Figures are not available for the specified age groups, nor for parliamentary constituency, as sample sizes are too small for these narrow groups. Percentage of age group not in employment, education or training (NEET) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 16 to 19-year-olds 20 to 24-year-olds Local education authorities NEET (%) Confidence interval NEET (%) Confidence interval City of London 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- Camden 15 6.3 14 4.6 Greenwich 18 5.9 21 6.0 Hackney 17 6.3 19 5.4 18 7.8 11 4.2 Islington 20 7.0 20 5.8 Kensington and Chelsea 12 5.9 8 4.4 Lambeth 13 5.8 13 4.9 Lewisham 20 7.2 20 5.4 Southwark 17 6.2 21 5.8 Tower Hamlets 16 4.5 25 4.3 Wandsworth 13 5.7 13 4.0 Westminster, City of 12 5.1 16 4.3 Barking and Dagenham 26 7.1 21 6.0 Barnet 9 5.0 14 5.2 Bexley 12 5.2 9 4.9 Brent 9 3.8 13 4.1 Bromley 14 6.6 10 5.5 Croydon 11 4.6 15 5.1 Ealing 9 4.9 13 5.0 Enfield 15 6.5 13 5.4 Haringey 20 6.9 24 7.0 Harrow 1-- 1-- 11 5.4 Havering 9 4.9 9 5.1 Hillingdon 10 5.0 11 5.0 Hounslow 11 4.6 13 5.0 Kingston-Upon-Thames 1-- 1-- 7 3.9 Merton 12 6.6 12 5.7 Newham 16 4.6 24 5.1 Redbridge 10 4.7 21 6.1 1-- 1-- 14 7.5 Sutton 1-- 1-- 11 5.2 Waltham Forest 18 6.3 20 5.6 Birmingham 16 3.2 23 3.4 Coventry 13 3.4 13 3.3 Dudley 10 4.1 17 4.9 Sandwell 17 4.2 22 4.6 Solihull 10 3.4 9 3.4 Walsall 12 3.8 24 5.2 Wolverhampton 12 4.0 27 4.8 Knowsley 17 3.9 25 5.1 Liverpool 18 3.9 20 3.8 St. Helens 10 4.1 18 5.0 Sefton 9 3.1 21 4.7 Wirral 12 3.6 19 4.7 Bolton 11 3.5 16 4.6 Bury 14 4.3 16 4.9 Manchester 16 3.9 20 3.4 Oldham 14 4.4 28 5.6 Rochdale 15 4.4 24 5.0 Salford 20 4.7 19 4.2 Stockport 7 3.5 12 4.9 Tameside 11 4.1 15 4.4 Trafford 9 3.3 14 4.1 Wigan 16 4.5 16 4.3 Barnsley 19 4.3 26 5.2 Doncaster 15 4.0 25 4.9 Rotherham 16 3.9 17 4.3 Sheffield 12 3.8 16 3.7 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Percentage of age group not in employment, education or training (NEET) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 16 to 19-year-olds 20 to 24-year-olds Local education authorities NEET (%) Confidence interval NEET (%) Confidence interval Bradford 16 3.7 25 4.3 Calderdale 13 4.8 22 5.1 Kirklees 12 3.7 22 4.8 Leeds 10 2.8 9 2.5 Wakefield 15 4.1 15 4.1 Gateshead 15 4.2 19 4.4 Newcastle Upon Tyne 15 4.0 13 3.0 North Tyneside 15 4.1 20 4.8 South Tyneside 16 3.6 24 4.4 Sunderland 15 3.6 21 4.0 Cornwall 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 5 2.4 10 3.0 Bristol 6 2.9 13 3.4 North Somerset 6 3.0 14 4.9 South Gloucestershire 1-- 1-- 8 3.3 Hartlepool 22 4.7 25 4.9 Middlesbrough 13 3.5 27 4.6 Redcar and Cleveland 21 4.3 27 5.2 Stockton on Tees 16 4.2 20 4.8 Kingston Upon Hull 19 4.3 21 4.0 East Riding of Yorkshire 7 3.1 15 5.2 North East Lincolnshire 15 4.0 25 4.9 North Lincolnshire 9 3.6 22 5.2 North Yorkshire 6 2.8 14 4.5 York 9 3.5 7 2.9 Bedfordshire 7 2.9 11 3.5 Luton 13 3.6 18 3.8 Buckinghamshire 7 3.2 13 4.2 Milton Keynes 7 3.2 14 3.7 Derbyshire 12 3.4 20 4.1 Derby 18 4.6 18 3.9 Dorset 7 3.2 11 4.6 Poole 13 4.5 12 4.2 Bournemouth 11 3.4 8 2.7 Durham 14 4.1 27 5.2 Darlington 15 5.0 18 4.7 East Sussex 8 3.2 15 4.9 Brighton and Hove 7 3.4 11 3.1 Hampshire 8 2.2 12 2.7 Portsmouth 10 3.5 12 3.4 Southampton 15 4.3 9 2.5 Leicestershire 7 2.6 10 3.4 Leicester 12 3.4 20 3.7 Rutland 1-- 1-- 21 10.1 Staffordshire 8 2.7 12 3.1 Stoke-on-Trent 17 4.0 16 4.0 Wiltshire 6 2.9 8 3.6 Swindon 7 3.7 10 4.0 Bracknell Forest 9 3.8 12 4.5 8 3.9 14 4.5 West Berkshire 5 2.7 11 3.9 Reading 11 3.9 15 3.5 Slough 12 3.6 15 3.7 Wokingham 5 2.9 11 4.5 Cambridgeshire 9 3.4 12 3.9 Greater Peterborough 11 3.6 20 4.6 Cheshire 9 3.2 13 3.8 Halton 14 3.8 27 5.3 Warrington 11 4.1 15 4.9 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Percentage of age group not in employment, education or training (NEET) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 16 to 19-year-olds 20 to 24-year-olds Local education authorities NEET (%) Confidence interval NEET (%) Confidence interval Devon 6 3.0 14 4.1 Plymouth 17 4.2 16 3.5 Torbay 11 3.8 16 4.7 Essex 12 2.6 15 2.8 Southend 11 4.0 18 4.4 Thurrock 14 4.1 13 3.8 Hereford 10 3.3 13 4.6 Worcestershire 8 3.1 14 4.3 Kent 12 2.5 17 3.0 Medway Towns 13 4.0 17 4.5 Lancashire 9 2.4 15 3.0 Blackburn 12 3.6 23 4.7 Blackpool 15 4.4 19 4.7 Nottinghamshire 10 3.1 16 3.6 Nottingham 15 3.6 15 3.2 Shropshire 7 3.5 15 5.5 Telford and Wrekin 12 3.7 15 4.0 Cornwall 8 3.1 16 4.5 Cumbria 9 3.5 15 4.8 Gloucestershire 9 3.2 12 3.6 Hertfordshire 5 1.9 14 2.9 Isle of Wight 9 3.6 21 5.4 Lincolnshire 9 3.2 15 3.8 Norfolk 10 3.1 14 3.4 Northamptonshire 10 3.9 14 4.1 Northumberland 16 4.2 17 4.4 Oxfordshire 7 2.9 10 3.2 Somerset 9 3.5 7 3.6 Suffolk 9 3.3 18 4.3 Surrey 6 2.3 12 3.0 Warwickshire 15 4.7 13 4.2 West Sussex 9 3.1 12 3.4 Total 11 0.3 16 0.3 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 The NEET estimate and Confidence Interval are not provided, as the number of people surveyed in the LEA is less that 10, and so results are potentially disclosive or particularly unreliable. Note: Figures for all three years have been combined to reduce the error margins around the NEET estimates. Source: Local Labour Force Survey for 2001, 2002 and 2003.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

216423; 431 c548-50W;431 c544-6W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Local education authorities Young people Unemployment

Contains statistics

Yes

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