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Written question asked by James Clappison (Conservative) on Monday, 2 February 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 4 February 2009. It was answered by Sion Simon (Labour) on Monday, 9 March 2009 on behalf of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.

Young People: Unemployment

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of people aged 16 to 24 years were not in education, employment or training in (a) 1997 and (b) each of the last eight quarters for which figures are available, broken down by region.
Answer

I have been asked to reply.The following tables show estimates of the number and percentage of people aged¹ 16 to 24 not in education, employment or training (NEET) for regions in England. These estimates are from the labour force survey (LFS).We are unable to provide NEET estimates for 1997 as all the data necessary to produce them is not available on datasets prior to quarter 2 2000, therefore we have given the earliest data possible for reference."¹ Age used is the respondent's academic age, which is defined as their age at the preceding 31 August."

Not in education, employment or training (NEET) by region, age 16 to 24
Number
Q2 2000 Q1 2007 Q2 2007 Q3 2007 Q4 2007 Q1 2008 Q2 2008 Q3 2008 Q4 2008
England 655,000 828,000 833,000 909,000 782,000 810,000 840,000 973,000 857,000
North East 62,000 48,000 47,000 52,000 49,000 52,000 56,000 65,000 54,000
North West 93,000 127,000 134,000 144,000 120,000 136,000 139,000 151,000 142,000
Yorks and Humber 74,000 97,000 92,000 105,000 82,000 75,000 101,000 119,000 92,000
East Midlands 60,000 72,000 66,000 81,000 70,000 69,000 71,000 86,000 68,000
West Midlands 75,000 111,000 107,000 111,000 93,000 95,000 98,000 119,000 105,000
East of England 52,000 76,000 84,000 92,000 74,000 87,000 77,000 82,000 79,000
London 130,000 119,000 130,000 136,000 123,000 129,000 132,000 149,000 131,000
South East 67,000 107,000 112,000 125,000 116,000 104,000 111,000 131,000 122,000
South West 42,000 70,000 61,000 63,000 56,000 63,000 55,000 71,000 63,000
Percentage
Q2 2000 Q1 2007 Q2 2007 Q3 2007 Q4 2007 Q1 2008 Q2 2008 Q3 2008 Q4 2008
England 12.8 14.1 14.2 15.4 13.1 13.6 14.0 16.2 14.2
North East 22.6 15.2 14.6 16.4 15.3 16.2 17.4 19.6 16.7
North West 13.2 15.2 16.1 17.3 14.2 16.1 16.2 17.6 16.8
Yorks and Humber 14.3 14.5 13.9 15.9 12.3 11.3 15.1 17.8 13.6
East Midlands 13.7 13.8 12.8 15.1 13.0 13.1 13.4 15.9 12.8
West Midlands 13.6 18.0 17.4 17.6 14.7 15.0 15.6 18.7 16.4
East of England 10.2 12.8 14.1 15.2 12.1 14.1 12.5 13.5 12.9
London 14.9 13.8 15.1 15.7 14.2 14.8 14.5 16.5 14.6
South East 8.5 12.0 12.4 14.0 12.8 11.5 12.1 14.4 13.2
South West 9.2 12.7 11.1 11.2 9.8 10.9 9.7 12.7 11.1

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
489 c203-6W;489 c205-6W; 254534
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Unemployment
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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