Dr. Ian Jones:

Some 400 of the 2,000 would have been long-term unemployed and approximately 250 of the 400 were aged under 25. Of the 2,000, some were unemployed for four, six or nine months and were aged 23 or 24. Probably 800 of the 2,000 would have been under 25. I would like to think that we activated their employment in some form before they met the categories of being both long-term unemployed and still aged under 25 years.