asked if she will list, for the most recent year for which figures are available, the number of school leavers who have left school without any qualifications.

My Department does not collect statistics of all the examinations for which school children can enter. However, of the 751,000 children who left school in England and Wales in 1976–77, 117,000 did not possess a graded result in either the CSE or GCE examinations.