Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 June 1991.
James Paice
, South East Cambridgeshire
12:00,
11 June 1991
Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that one of the most important questions to be taken into account in considering training places is the number of people available for them? Is not it true that we face a substantial decline in the number of young people of school-leaving age and just above, added to which there has been a welcome but substantial increase in the number of young people staying on at school and undertaking further education, and that that is a perfectly understandable reason why there should be less need to have so many training places available for people in that age group?