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Mr. Andrew Smith
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Oxford, East, Official Report, 18 December, columns 36–40, if he will publish the numbers of students on which his calculations are based for each year from 1990 to 2027.
Mr. Jackson
The table gives estimates of the numbers of students eligible for loans from 1990–91 to 2000–01 inclusive. The basis is the United Kingdom. The figures in annex E of the White Paper rest on a series of assumptions, one being that numbers remain constant after the end of the century. This assumption also applies to the revised estimates of costs and savings.
| United Kingdom numbers eligible for loans | |
| Year | (000s) |
| 1990 | 569·2 |
| 1991 | 582·2 |
| 1992 | 584·6 |
| Calendar Year | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 11989 |
| Number of maintained secondary schools approved for closure | 106 | 117 | 107 | 92 | 94 |
| (i) girls' schools | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | 7 | 9 |
| (ii) boys' schools | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | 9 | 7 |
| (iii) mixed schools | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | 76 | 78 |
| (iv) voluntary schools | 18 | 33 | 23 | 18 | 7 |
| (v) county schools | 88 | 84 | 84 | 74 | 87 |
| Number of maintained secondary schools for which proposals were approved for significant change of character | 31 | 75 | 18 | 35 | 37 |
| (i) girls' schools | 1 | — | — | 2 | 3 |
| (ii) boys' schools | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| (iii) mixed schools | 29 | 74 | 15 | 32 | 32 |
Year
| (000s)
|
| 1993 | 580·6 |
| 1994 | 576·4 |
| 1995 | 574·3 |
| 1996 | 581·6 |
| 1997 | 600·0 |
| 1998 | 625·7 |
| 1999 | 645·1 |
| 2000 | 655·5 |