HC Deb 16 January 1991 vol 183 cc503-4W
Mr. Straw

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will set out in greater detail the statistical basis of his statement in his speech to the north of England education conference on 4 January, that only one country in the European Community exceeds the United Kingdom's present figure of 33 per cent. of the relevant age group achieving higher education qualifications, including his definition of qualification for these purposes.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

The figures on which the statement are based are given in the table: