To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many general certificate of secondary education passes per pupil were obtained in 1989 and 1990 in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) Humberside.

Amongst pupils aged 16 in the academic year 1988–89, the number of GCSEs at grade G or above achieved per pupil, for the areas in question, was as follows. Figures for 1990 are not yet available.