asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give education expenditure in the United Kingdom as a percentage of gross national product compared with that of each of the European Economic Community nations in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.

The available information for each year from 1970 is as follows:

	Full-time and sand-wich		Part-time
	Men	Women	Men	Women
1974	99,641	99,882	95,518	16,087
1975	104,922	100,600	99,501	18,702
1976	108,028	97,725	100,155	20,255
1977	106,591	88,851	103,681	27,144
1978	105,721	80,900	110,089	32,571
1979	104,394	79,625	112,433	36,484
1980	105,281	81,629	118,925	39,910
1981	114,563	89,281	122,303	42,239

More detailed figures may be found in the statistical volumes published by the Department and by the Welsh Office, copies of which are available in the Library.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the Official Report the numbers of initial entrants, under 21 years of age, in advanced, full and part-time courses at maintained, assisted and grant-aided establishments who were domiciled in (a) Wales, (b) England and (c) Scotland, for each year since 1974.

Not all the information requested is readily available. The following information excludes entrants from Great Britain to colleges in Northern Ireland.

Home full time entrants to higher education aged under 21 Advanced courses at establishments of further and higher education in Great Britain (excluding universities)
	1977–78	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81
Country of Domicile	Thousands	Thousands	Thousands	Thousands
Wales	2·1	2·1	2·2	2·3
England	34·3	33·3	34·0	36·3
Scotland	5·7	5·5	5·9	6·8