Pupils (Staying-On Rates)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the staying-on rates at school at age 15 years for each local authority for the last five years. [7329]

Percentage of 16 year olds in school by LEA, England, 1990–91 to 1994–95
	1990–91	1991–92	1992–93	1993–94	1994–95
London¹
Inner London	37	45	41	40	39
Barking	28	38	42	42	40
Barnet	52	61	60	59	57
Bexley	43	46	46	45	42
Brent	34	39	42	40	40
Bromley	51	57	58	60	61
Croydon	22	27	31	31	29
Ealing	46	50	37	34	39
Enfield	43	49	56	55	51
Haringey	35	42	42	41	36

The following table shows by LEA the percentage continuing in school at age 16, the first year after the end of compulsory education. The percentage will be comparatively lower in LEAs where 16 year olds can transfer to a sixth form college or a tertiary college. Others will continue their education and training in further education colleges or in the workplace.

Percentage of 16 year olds in school by LEA, England, 1990–91 to 1994–95
	1990–91	1991–92	1992–93	1993–94	1994–95
Harrow	18	17	19	18	18
Havering	34	18	18	21	18
Hillingdon	43	51	54	52	50
Hounslow	46	52	60	53	59
Kingston upon Thames	52	59	64	66	62
Merton	31	32	37	36	32
Newham	26	24	11	10	8
Redbridge	49	59	62	64	60
Richmond upon Thames	24	31	32	31	34
Sutton	51	61	58	61	61
Waltham Forest	11	11	11	15	15
Metropolitan authorities
Birmingham	26	29	31	32	30
Coventry	39	46	48	47	41
Dudley	4	5	6	5	4
Sandwell	14	15	16	18	16
Solihull	19	23	22	25	29
Walsall	35	41	48	47	43
Wolverhampton	33	41	43	47	44
Knowsley	16	16	18	12	15
Liverpool	44	47	53	53	48
St.Helens	24	24	25	27	27
Sefton	35	37	38	41	39
Wirral	40	44	46	46	44
Bolton	22	22	26	24	24
Bury	11	11	11	11	13
Manchester	18	20	18	20	28
Oldham	31	29	19	23	21
Rochdale	14	16	17	16	15
Salford	1	0	1	2	1
Stockport	20	16	11	9	17
Tameside	1	1	2	2	2
Trafford	30	24	26	27	27
Wigan	8	6	7	8	6
Barnsley	3	4	4	4	5
Doncaster	37	40	44	45	42
Rotherham	26	28	27	31	30
Sheffield	16	18	18	18	19
Bradford	41	46	47	46	45
Calderdale	40	44	46	49	43
Kirklees	23	23	25	23	22
Leeds	36	40	40	44	40
Wakefield	23	24	26	28	28
Gateshead	29	28	33	32	32
Newcastle upon Tyne	48	52	52	55	51
North Tyneside	33	34	35	36	36
South Tyneside	5	6	7	7	7
Sunderland	11	12	13	13	12
Counties
Avon	38	43	49	47	44
Bedfordshire	39	42	43	44	41
Berkshire	48	54	57	57	57
Buckinghamshire	45	50	54	55	53
Cambridgeshire	28	33	36	35	34
Cheshire	34	36	38	38	38
Cleveland	6	7	6	7	7
Cornwall (including Isles of Scilly)	29	30	33	27	27
Cumbria	33	37	37	41	40
Derbyshire	25	28	31	29	30
Devon	33	38	39	41	41
Dorset	38	44	47	49	48
Durham	22	24	25	25	24
East Sussex	28	33	35	35	33
Essex	26	28	29	30	28
Gloucestershire	45	46	48	47	46
Hampshire	10	10	11	11	10
Hereford and Worcester	35	36	39	39	40
Hertfordshire	53	58	62	63	60
Humberside	19	20	21	23	20
Isle ot Wight	48	48	51	54	51
Kent	42	49	51	52	52

Percentage of 16 year olds in school by LEA, England, 1990–91 to 1994–95
	1990–91	1991–92	1992–93	1993–94	1994–95
Lancashire	16	16	17	18	17
Leicestershire	36	38	39	40	38
Lincolnshire	30	31	34	36	36
Norfolk	29	32	34	37	37
North Yorkshire	35	38	39	40	40
Northamptonshire	39	45	50	51	48
Northumberland	40	47	47	50	48
Nottinghamshire	28	31	34	34	34
Oxfordshire	42	50	54	55	52
Shropshire	22	23	27	28	27
Somerset	28	31	31	30	31
Staffordshire	25	28	30	30	31
Suffolk	41	46	47	52	48
Surrey	38	40	42	42	42
Warwickshire	33	36	36	38	36
West Sussex	35	39	41	39	38
Wiltshire	30	31	36	35	34
England	31	34	35	36	35
¹ Data for individual boroughs are not reliable.

Source:

Schools' Census, population estimates.

Volume 297: debated on Thursday 10 July 1997