To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish the proportion of school leavers going into higher education in (a) each London borough, (b) Greater London, (c) outer London, (d) inner London and (e) England for each year from 1980–81 to 1990–91.

The proportions of school leavers from maintained schools whose intended destinations for the three-year period ending 1989–90 was a university or polytechnic course, for the areas requested, were as shown in the table. Information for earlier years is not readily available and to provide it would involve disproportionate cost. Information for 1990–91 is not yet available.