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Mr. Holt
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of 16-year-olds leave school at the first legal opportunity.
Mr. Dunn
The proportion of pupils aged 16 at the end of August 1986 in England that had left school by January 1987 was 70ยท5 per cent.