16-Year-Olds

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what are the latest available figures for (a) the number and (b) the percentage of 16-year-olds in full-time education in (i) school sixth forms, (ii) sixth form colleges and (iii) colleges of further education in each local education authority. [33147]

The number and percentage of 16-year-olds in full-time education in the 1993–94 academic year in

16-year-olds in full-time education Student numbers and participation rate
	Student numbers				Participation rate (percentage)
Local Education Authority	Further education institutes	Sixth form colleges	School sixth forms	Total	Further education institutes	Sixth form colleges	School sixth forms	Total
Inner London	6,258	1,254	8,628	16,140	29	6	39	74
Barking	302	0	658	960	20	0	44	65
Barnet	631	195	1,916	2,742	19	6	59	84
Bexley	681	19	1,094	1,794	28	1	45	74
Brent	748	125	1,100	1,973	27	5	40	72
Bromley	638	20	1,840	2,498	21	1	60	82
Croydon	834	1,019	1,068	2,921	25	30	31	86
Ealing	1,113	44	1,007	2,164	38	1	34	73
Enfield	696	44	1,517	2,257	25	2	55	82
Haringey	601	68	840	1,509	30	3	41	74
Harrow	1,329	158	451	1,938	55	7	19	81
Havering	838	717	562	2,117	31	27	21	79
Hillingdon	560	25	1,283	1,868	23	1	53	77
Hounslow	564	31	1,189	1,784	25	1	52	79
Kingston upon Thames	298	105	864	1,267	22	8	65	95
Merton	407	261	558	1,226	26	17	36	79
Newham	719	694	253	1,666	28	27	10	65
Redbridge	567	9	1,674	2,250	21	0	62	84
Richmond upon Thames	702	70	448	1,220	49	5	31	85
Sutton	418	20	1,090	1,528	24	1	62	87
Waltham Forest	492	788	330	1,610	23	36	15	74
Birmingham	3,006	1,483	3,725	8,214	26	13	32	70
Coventry	839	7	1,515	2,361	25	0	45	70
Dudley	1,485	371	176	2,032	45	11	5	62
Sandwell	905	303	570	1,778	29	10	18	56
Solihull	633	868	605	2,106	27	36	25	88
Walsall	523	1	1,419	1,943	17	0	47	65
Wolverhampton	587	20	1,353	1,960	21	1	47	69
Knowsley	494	32	226	752	27	2	12	41
Liverpool	675	16	2,613	3,304	13	0	52	66
St. Helens	413	420	576	1,409	20	20	27	67
Sefton	863	351	1,362	2,576	26	11	42	79
Wirral	459	460	1,808	2,727	12	12	46	69
Bolton	661	602	736	1,999	22	20	24	66
Bury	901	354	220	1,475	44	17	11	72
Manchester	1,200	1,019	911	3,130	25	22	19	66
Oldham	572	552	606	1,730	22	21	23	65
Rochdale	890	117	392	1,399	35	5	16	56
Salford	457	857	38	1,352	19	35	2	56
Stockport	503	1,555	303	2,361	15	47	9	71
Tameside	625	736	55	1,416	26	30	2	59
Trafford	813	95	660	1,568	33	4	27	65
Wigan	1,170	598	265	2,033	33	17	8	58
Barnsley	1,069	4	93	1,166	47	0	4	51
Doncaster	551	8	1,446	2,005	17	0	44	62
Rotherham	614	395	886	1,895	21	14	31	66
Sheffield	2,276	14	892	3,182	43	0	17	61
Bradford	835	1	2,821	3,657	14	0	46	60
Calderdale	428	107	1,046	1,581	20	5	48	73
Kirklees	1,149	744	1,052	2,945	25	16	23	65
Leeds	1,489	286	3,264	5,039	20	4	43	66
Wakefield	954	334	925	2,213	29	10	28	67
Gateshead	441	0	675	1,116	21	0	32	54
Newcastle upon Tyne	409	0	1,508	1,917	14	0	53	68
North Tyneside	363	392	744	1,499	17	19	36	72
South Tyneside	721	0	120	841	45	0	7	52
Sunderland	1,413	0	432	1,845	42	0	13	54
Avon	2,166	475	4,907	7,548	21	5	47	72
Bedfordshire	1,398	805	2,809	5,012	22	12	43	77
Berkshire	2,372	63	5,098	7,533	27	1	57	85
Buckinghamshire	1,509	3	4,595	6,107	18	0	56	74
Cambridgeshire	2,137	1,008	2,713	5,858	27	13	34	74
Cheshire	2,644	1,245	4,205	8,094	24	11	38	73
Cleveland	1,558	2,181	466	4,205	23	32	7	62
Cornwall/Isles of Scilly	2,831	0	1,437	4,268	52	0	27	79

England for each local education authority are shown in the table.

16-year-olds in full-time education Student numbers and participation rate
	Student numbers				Participation rate (percentage)
Local Education Authority	Further education institutes	Sixth form colleges	School sixth forms	Total	Further education institutes	Sixth form colleges	School sixth forms	Total
Cumbria	1,088	340	2,206	3,634	20	6	40	66
Derbyshire	3,824	37	3,023	6,884	37	0	29	66
Devon	3,822	0	4,495	8,317	34	0	40	74
Dorset	2,245	0	3,411	5,656	33	0	50	83
Durham	1,858	389	1,660	3,907	27	6	24	57
East Sussex	1,645	1,426	2,364	5,435	24	21	35	80
Essex	5,287	2,362	5,343	12,992	30	13	30	74
Gloucestershire	1,743	1	2,852	4,596	29	0	47	76
Hampshire	5,955	5,291	1,901	13,147	34	30	11	75
Hereford and Worcester	1,917	968	3,224	6,109	23	12	39	75
Hertfordshire	2,864	96	7,111	10,071	25	1	62	88
Humberside	2,575	1,662	2,268	6,505	25	16	22	64
Isle of Wight	298	3	729	1,030	22	0	53	75
Kent	4,952	5	9,362	14,319	28	0	52	80
Lancashire	6,223	1,552	2,876	10,651	38	10	18	66
Leicestershire	1,997	1,417	4,339	7,753	19	13	40	72
Lincolnshire	2,218	105	2,433	4,756	33	2	36	71
Norfolk	2,439	495	3,041	5,975	30	6	37	73
North Yorkshire	2,071	842	3,213	6,126	26	11	40	77
Northamptonshire	1,678	2	3,568	5,248	24	0	51	75
Northumberland	507	0	1,811	2,318	14	0	50	64
Nottinghamshire	2,522	818	3,839	7,179	23	7	34	64
Oxfordshire	1,672	168	3,624	5,464	25	2	54	81
Shropshire	1,312	820	1,367	3,499	27	17	28	72
Somerset	2,241	410	1,727	4,378	39	7	30	77
Staffordshire	3,431	801	3,484	7,716	29	7	30	66
Suffolk	1,554	26	3,876	5,456	21	0	52	73
Surrey	2,386	2,133	4,785	9,304	21	19	42	81
Warwickshire	1,660	330	2,126	4,116	30	6	39	75
West Sussex	1,978	1,523	3,031	6,532	25	19	39	83
Wiltshire	2,493	2	2,288	4,783	38	0	35	73
England	145,852	48,572	192,015	386,439	27	9	36	72

Volume 263: debated on Monday 10 July 1995