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Mr. Sheerman
asked the Paymaster General if he will list his estimates of the number of 16-year-olds in the nation in each of the next 10 years.
Mr. Lee
The following table lists the projected numbers of people in Great Britain aged 16 at the end of June each year from 1987 to 1996, as given by the 1985-based projections of the Government Actuary's Department:
| Population aged 16 at mid-year Great Britain | |
| Thousand | |
| 1987 | 850 |
| 1988 | 797 |
| 1989 | 748 |
| 1990 | 697 |
| 1991 | 673 |
| 1992 | 648 |
| 1993 | 630 |
| 1994 | 630 |
| 1995 | 683 |
| 1996 | 709 |