HC Deb 19 January 1988 vol 125 cc622-4W
35. Mr. Battle

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of girls stay in full-time education after the age of 16 years, by local education authority; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Dunn

The percentage of 16-year-old girls in full-time education at maintained schools and further education establishments in the academic year 1986–87 in each English local education authority was as follows:

Academic year 1986–87
16-year-old girls in full-lime education (percentage of age group)1
Local education authority percent.
Barking 29
Barnet 71
Bexley 49
Brent 67
Bromley 62
Croydon 53
Ealing 62
Enfield 56
Haringey 55
Harrow 81
Havering 45
Hillingdon 48
Hounslow 60
Kingston upon Thames 67
Merton 55
Newham 48
Redbridge 53
Richmond upon Thames 66
Sutton 63
Waltham Forest 47
Inner London 55
Birmingham 46
Coventry 43
Dudley 40
Sandwell 35
Solihull 52
Walsall 40
Wolverhampton 38
Knowsley 37
Liverpool 44
St. Helens 43
Sefton 56
Wirral 50
Bolton 42
Bury 54
Manchester 46
Oldham 33
Rochdale 37
Salford 41
Stockport 48
Tameside 45
Trafford 46
Wigan 47
Barnsley 39
Doncaster 34
Rotherham 44
Sheffield 40
Bradford 38
Calderdale 45
Kirklees 48
Leeds 43
Wakefield 40
Gateshead 34
Newcastle upon Tyne 38
North Tyneside 50
South Tyneside 36
Sunderland 37
Avon 48
Bedfordshire 55
Berkshire 57
Buckinghamshire 58
Cambridge 51
Cheshire 53
Cleveland 45
Cornwall2 56
Cumbria 47
Derbyshire 47
Devon 52

Local education authority per cent.
Dorset 50
Durham 42
East Sussex 58
Essex 46
Gloucestershire 49
Hampshire 57
Hereford and Worcester 55
Hertfordshire 58
Humberside 38
Isle of Wight 60
Kent 54
Lancashire 46
Leicestershire 49
Lincolnshire 49
Norfolk 48
North Yorkshire 57
Northampton 48
Northumberland 46
Nottinghamshire 41
Oxfordshire 56
Salop 54
Somerset 49
Staffordshire 45
Suffolk 43
Surrey 69
Warwickshire 58
West Sussex 56
Wiltshire 56
1 The number of 16-year-old girls expressed as a percentage of the total number of 15-year-old girls in maintained secondary schools one year earlier.
2 Including Isles of Scilly.

42. Mr. Wareing

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he has any plans to meet the Association of Metropolitan Authorities to discuss the staying-on rate in education at the age of 16 years; and if he will make a statement.

49. Mr. Lofthouse

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he has any plans to meet the Association of Metropolitan Authorities to discuss the staying-on rate in education at the age of 16 years; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Rumbold

My right hon. Friend has no plans at present to meet the Association of Metropolitan Authorities to discuss the staying-on rate in education at the age of 16 years. But he is always willing to receive representations from the association, whether on that or other issues.

72. Mr. Andrew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he has any plans to meet the Association of County Councils to discuss the staying-on rates in education at the age of 16 years; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Rumbold

My right hon. Friend has no plans at present to meet the Association of County Councils to discuss the staying-on rate in education at the age of 16 years. But he is always willing to receive representations from the association, whether on that or other issues.