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Mr. Bryan Davies
To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will publish a table showing the latest available figures for the number of students in each local authority in England and Wales undertaking courses of further education aged (a) 16 to 18 years and (b) 19 years and over; and what proportion of these age groups was not in receipt of any discretionary award. [33146]
Mr. Paice
The number of students in each LEA in England who are undertaking further education (a) aged 16 to 18 years and (b) 19 years and over; and the estimated proportion of each of these age groups who do not receive an award under section 2 of the Education Act 1962, are shown in the following table.
| Numbers of FE Students by home LEA showing proportion of students not receiving grants under section 2 of the 1962 Education Act | ||||
| England 1993–94 | ||||
| Total Numbers of FE Students by LEA of Domicile | FE Students Not in Receipt of Section 2 Discretionary Awards Percentage of Age group | |||
| LEA | Aged 16–18 | Aged 19+ | Aged 16–18 | Aged 19+ |
| City of London | 32 | 183 | 97 | 99 |
| Camden | 1,206 | 7,243 | 100 | 100 |
| Greenwich | 1,690 | 3,178 | 68 | 98 |
| Hackney | 2,654 | 11,757 | 72 | 99 |
| Hammersmith | 1,161 | 3,682 | 99 | 99 |
| Islington | 1,981 | 8,857 | 66 | 100 |
| Kensington | 798 | 6,306 | 46 | 99 |
| Lambeth | 2,463 | 7,107 | 100 | 100 |
| Lewisham | 1,987 | 5,014 | 71 | 96 |
| Southwark | 2,367 | 7,091 | 99 | 99 |
| Tower Hamlets | 2,579 | 3,879 | 49 | 99 |
| Wandsworth | 2,455 | 22,646 | 59 | 100 |
| Westminster | 1,061 | 4,424 | 100 | 96 |
| Barking | 1,296 | 1,539 | 45 | 91 |
| Barnet | 2,597 | 12,866 | 97 | 99 |
| Bexley | 2,187 | 2,267 | 92 | 94 |
| Brent | 2,759 | 7,422 | 100 | 98 |
| Bromley | 2,254 | 2,980 | 78 | 98 |
| Croydon | 2,766 | 4,065 | 73 | 99 |
| Ealing | 3,835 | 8,948 | 99 | 99 |
| Enfield | 2,819 | 9,124 | 79 | 100 |
| Haringey | 2,329 | 8,465 | 100 | 100 |
| Harrow | 3,657 | 8,772 | 100 | 100 |
| Havering | 2,623 | 3,622 | 62 | 92 |
| Hillingdon | 2,133 | 3,378 | 100 | 100 |
| Hounslow | 2,055 | 4,330 | 79 | 94 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 1,114 | 1,773 | 82 | 96 |
| Merton | 1,606 | 3,163 | 73 | 97 |
| Newham | 2,590 | 6,389 | 60 | 98 |
| Redbridge | 2,269 | 4,493 | 76 | 96 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 2,093 | 13,057 | 93 | 99 |
| Sutton | 1,658 | 8,480 | 96 | 99 |
| Waltham Forest | 2,027 | 4,756 | 79 | 98 |
| Birmingham | 11,063 | 26,389 | 87 | 95 |
| Coventry | 3,480 | 8,393 | 84 | 97 |
| Dudley | 4,501 | 10,368 | 92 | 99 |
| Sandwell | 3,180 | 6,283 | 98 | 98 |
| Solihull | 2,156 | 9,858 | 99 | 97 |
| Walsall | 2,295 | 4,483 | 94 | 95 |
| Wolverhampton | 2,641 | 7,249 | 98 | 100 |
| Knowsley | 1,752 | 3,342 | 68 | 88 |
| Liverpool | 3,524 | 13,603 | 71 | 94 |
| St. Helens | 2,189 | 5,057 | 74 | 97 |
| Sefton | 3,056 | 8,107 | 83 | 93 |
| Wirral | 2,806 | 11,579 | 78 | 96 |
| Bolton | 2,465 | 4,471 | 21 | 89 |
| Bury | 2,537 | 3,244 | 75 | 91 |
| Manchester | 3,883 | 11,004 | 38 | 87 |
| Oldham | 2,030 | 2,506 | 53 | 87 |
| Rochdale | 2,648 | 4,457 | 65 | 70 |
| Numbers of FE Students by home LEA showing proportion of students not receiving grants under section 2 of the 1962 Education Act | ||||
| England 1993–94 | ||||
| Total Numbers of FE Students by LEA of Domicile | FE Students Not in Receipt of Section 2 Discretionary Awards Percentage of Age group | |||
| LEA | Aged 16–18 | Aged 19+ | Aged 16–18 | Aged 19+ |
| Salford | 1,582 | 6,752 | 87 | 97 |
| Stockport | 1,892 | 4,223 | 46 | 88 |
| Tameside | 2,190 | 6,127 | 68 | 96 |
| Trafford | 2,645 | 8,870 | 79 | 98 |
| Wigan | 3,983 | 6,275 | 59 | 98 |
| Barnsley | 4,305 | 4,795 | 100 | 98 |
| Doncaster | 2,773 | 9,188 | 60 | 96 |
| Rotherham | 2,489 | 8,930 | 46 | 94 |
| Sheffield | 6,917 | 19,851 | 99 | 80 |
| Bradford | 5,111 | 21,833 | 99 | 96 |
| Calderdale | 2,100 | 4,489 | 95 | 97 |
| Kirklees | 4,402 | 14,692 | 35 | 94 |
| Leeds | 7,305 | 27,359 | 85 | 97 |
| Wakefield | 3,158 | 8,936 | 77 | 100 |
| Gateshead | 1,961 | 4,254 | 67 | 89 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 2,005 | 4,544 | 76 | 92 |
| North Tyneside | 1,583 | 3,364 | 58 | 81 |
| South Tyneside | 2,177 | 3,674 | 82 | 97 |
| Sunderland | 4,218 | 8,119 | 61 | 97 |
| Avon | 8,852 | 26,609 | 75 | 97 |
| Bedfordshire | 5,576 | 12,270 | 87 | 88 |
| Berkshire | 8,156 | 23,118 | 91 | 98 |
| Buckinghamshire | 6,101 | 9,123 | 94 | 99 |
| Cambridgeshire | 6,968 | 12,668 | 98 | 99 |
| Cheshire | 10,928 | 32,930 | 88 | 91 |
| Cleveland | 6,556 | 16,033 | 67 | 100 |
| Cornwall | 7,287 | 28,016 | 56 | 97 |
| Cumbria | 4,720 | 8,976 | 84 | 79 |
| Derbyshire | 11,911 | 19,509 | 83 | 100 |
| Devon | 11,833 | 15,624 | 83 | 99 |
| Dorset | 6,997 | 9,924 | 81 | 52 |
| Durham | 6,776 | 16,164 | 100 | 89 |
| East Sussex | 5,745 | 23,531 | 57 | 95 |
| Essex | 15,584 | 23,153 | 87 | 91 |
| Gloucestershire | 6,221 | 19,439 | 77 | 96 |
| Hampshire | 17,556 | 34,740 | 82 | 92 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 7,104 | 21,489 | 57 | 94 |
| Hertfordshire | 11,243 | 41,102 | 89 | 97 |
| Humberside | 9,808 | 19,952 | 80 | 93 |
| Isle of Wight | 1,282 | 3,636 | 100 | 100 |
| Kent | 15,222 | 16,060 | 55 | 75 |
| Lancashire | 19,921 | 59,776 | 61 | 99 |
| Leicestershire | 7,908 | 17,412 | 81 | 80 |
| Lincolnshire | 6,967 | 9,383 | 90 | 90 |
| Norfolk | 7,537 | 8,746 | 71 | 88 |
| North Yorkshire | 7,612 | 20,396 | 49 | 90 |
| Northamptonshire | 6,276 | 20,170 | 100 | 97 |
| Northumberland | 2,561 | 4,941 | 61 | 84 |
| Nottinghamshire | 10,789 | 43,615 | 84 | 98 |
| Oxfordshire | 5,973 | 13,010 | 99 | 98 |
| Shropshire | 4,786 | 17,041 | 93 | 97 |
| Somerset | 6,621 | 13,698 | 80 | 94 |
| Staffordshire | 11,865 | 25,914 | 90 | 99 |
| Suffolk | 6,490 | 22,790 | 90 | 97 |
| Surrey | 8,722 | 11,470 | 47 | 94 |
| Warwickshire | 5,871 | 15,716 | 100 | 100 |
| West Sussex | 6,824 | 11,063 | 45 | 96 |
| Wiltshire | 7,499 | 19.918 | 100 | 91 |
| England total | 492,317 | 1,205,682 | 78 | 94 |