16 and 17-year-olds

HC Deb 21 July 1994 vol 247 c573W

Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many 16 and 17-year-olds were in full-time education or training in each quarter since January 1988.

Mr. Boswell

Quarterly counts of numbers in schools and further education colleges are not available. The full-time numbers aged 16 and 17 in England in each academic year are given in the table. The figures include some young people who were in college as part of their youth training.

Thousands
Academic year	Pupils and students aged
	16	17
1987–88	349.9	236.8
1988–89	348.7	256.2
1989–90	349.2	265.9
1990–91	357.1	273.1
1991–92	383.7	294.7
1992–94	387.5	311.8
1993–94	389.6	322.1

Source: Annual Schools Census and the Further Education Statistical Record.