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Mrs. Renée Short
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many teenagers left the care of local authorities on attaining 18 years of age in 1979; and how this compares with the figures for each of the previous five years.
Sir George Young
The numbers of teenagers who left local authority care in England and Wales on reaching the maximum age (18 or 19 as appropriate) during the five years ending 31 March 1974 to 1978 were, to the nearest one hundred, as follows:
| 1974 | … | … | … | … | 7,100 |
| 1975 | … | … | … | … | 7,500 |
| 1976 | … | … | … | … | 8,300 |
| 1977 | … | … | … | … | 8,100 |
| 1978 | … | … | … | … | 8,400 |