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Mr. Healey
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for each careers services area the percentage of young people leaving school at age 16 with (a) no qualifications and (b) few qualifications as defined by his Department, in rank order. [67252]
Mr. Mudie
[holding answer 25 January 1999]: GCSE/GNVQ achievements of all 16 year old pupils in maintained schools by careers service areas are shown in the table:
| GCSE/GNVQ achievements of 16 year old pupils1 in maintained schools in England, 1997–98 | ||||
| (a) | (b) | |||
| Careers service areas | Percentage of 16 year olds achieving no qualifications | Rank | Percentage of 16 year olds achieving at least 1 grade G but fewer than 5 grades A*-C | Rank |
| Cambridgeshire | 5.4 | 29 | 46.1 | 12 |
| Cleveland | 9.2 | 61 | 55.4 | 54 |
| Cornwall and Devon (including Isles of Scilly) | 3.8 | 5 | 48.6 | 27 |
| Coventry | 8.6 | 58 | 55.5 | 56 |
| Crewe, Congleton, Halton, Macclesfield, Nantwich, Vale Royale, Warrington | 4.0 | 6 | 46.6 | 17 |
| Cumbria | 5.8 | 32 | 50.4 | 34 |
| Derbyshire | 5.1 | 24 | 51.4 | 39 |
| Dorset | 4.5 | 11 | 45.0 | 7 |
| Durham | 8.0 | 52 | 56.2 | 58 |
| East Lancashire | 6.0 | 38 | 52.3 | 42 |
| East Sussex | 6.1 | 39 | 48.5 | 25 |
| Essex | 5.4 | 28 | 47.5 | 21 |
| Gloucestershire | 3.8 | 4 | 41.9 | 4 |
| Hampshire and Isle of Wight | 4.8 | 15 | 48.1 | 24 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 6.6 | 43 | 47.6 | 22 |
| Hertfordshire | 4.4 | 10 | 41.6 | 3 |
| Humberside | 8.2 | 54 | 55.4 | 55 |
| Kent | 5.0 | 17 | 47.3 | 20 |
| Leeds | 9.9 | 64 | 52.5 | 43 |
| Leicestershire and Rutland | 6.6 | 44 | 51.4 | 38 |
| Lincolnshire | 5.6 | 31 | 46.3 | 14 |
| Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton | 10.6 | 65 | 55.6 | 57 |
| London Area 1, Brent and Harrow | 5.0 | 19 | 46.6 | 16 |
| London Area 2, Barnet, Enfield, Haringey | 6.4 | 41 | 49.7 | 32 |
| London Area 3, City of London, Hackney, Islington | 8.5 | 57 | 66.8 | 66 |
| London Area 4, Barking, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlet, Waltham Forest | 4.7 | 14 | 55.4 | 53 |
| London Area 5, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark | 7.2 | 46 | 61.9 | 64 |
| London Area 6, Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Sutton | 4.5 | 12 | 46.4 | 15 |
| London Area 7, Kingston, Merton, Wandsworth | 7.3 | 47 | 50.5 | 35 |
| London Area 8, Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Richmond | 5.3 | 26 | 48.8 | 29 |
| London Area 9, Camden, City of Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, | 8.3 | 56 | 49.8 | 33 |
| Manchester, Salford, Tameside, Trafford | 8.3 | 55 | 54.3 | 52 |
| Norfolk | 5.5 | 30 | 48.6 | 28 |
| North Yorkshire | 4.1 | 7 | 41.3 | 1 |
| Northamptonshire | 4.9 | 16 | 50.8 | 36 |
| Northumberland | 6.0 | 37 | 49.6 | 31 |
| Nottinghamshire | 8.0 | 51 | 53.7 | 49 |
| Oldham | 9.3 | 62 | 54.0 | 51 |
| Sheffield | 9.2 | 60 | 53.0 | 46 |
| Shropshire | 3.8 | 3 | 46.8 | 18 |
| Solihull | 4.1 | 8 | 46.2 | 13 |
| Somerset | 3.3 | 1 | 45.8 | 10 |
| St. Helens | 7.2 | 45 | 53.3 | 48 |
| Staffordshire | 5.8 | 35 | 52.1 | 41 |
| Stockport and High Peak | 5.0 | 18 | 45.1 | 8 |
| Suffolk | 3.8 | 2 | 47.7 | 23 |
| Sunderland | 5.9 | 36 | 62.1 | 65 |
| Surrey | 5.1 | 23 | 41.4 | 2 |
| Tyneside | 9.0 | 59 | 53.9 | 50 |
| Wakefield | 5.8 | 33 | 56.4 | 59 |
| Warwickshire | 5.2 | 25 | 49.1 | 30 |
| West Lancashire | 5.0 | 20 | 48.6 | 26 |
| West Sussex | 4.7 | 13 | 43.6 | 6 |
| Wigan | 5.8 | 34 | 51.4 | 40 |
| Wiltshire | 5.1 | 21 | 45.8 | 9 |
| Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, City of Chester | 7.9 | 50 | 47.1 | 19 |
| 1 Age 16 at the end of the academic year i.e. 31 August 1998. | ||||