Further Education

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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of 16 to 18-year-olds in (a) Suffolk and (b) Bury St. Edmunds in education have gone on to further education in each of the last five years. [108779]

The percentage of 16 and 17-year-olds participating in full-time education for Suffolk LEA in each of the last five years for which data are available is set out in the table. Data on the percentage of students participating in post-compulsory education are not calculated for areas smaller than LEAs as reliable estimates cannot be made. Participation rates at sub-national level are available only for 16 and 17-year-olds. Bury St. Edmunds is part of Suffolk LEA.

Participation in full-time education in Suffolk LEA
Percentage of age group
	End 1996	End 1997	End 1998	End 1999	End 2000
16-year-olds	71	69	71	70	72
17-year-olds	59	59	58	59	57

Participation in education and training
						¹Percentage
	Full-time education			Total education and training²
LEA	End 1998	End 1999	End 2000	End 1998	End 1999	End 2000
16 year olds
Stoke-on-Trent	52	58	60	68	73	78
Staffordshire	68	70	70	86	85	85
17 year olds
Stoke-on-Trent	38	41	46	63	64	65
Staffordshire	57	57	59	79	77	77
16 and 17 year olds combined
Stoke-on-Trent	45	50	53	66	69	71
Staffordshire	63	64	64	82	81	81
¹ Percentage of age group.
² Includes full and part-time participation in education and Government Supported Training, counting those in both education and Government Supported Training only once. Participation rates by LEA for 16 and 17 year olds are published in an annual statistical bulletin, 'Participation in Education and Training by 16 and 17 Year Olds in Each Local Area in England'.

Volume 404: debated on Monday 28 April 2003