HC Deb 26 June 1995 vol 262 cc504-9W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list the number of 16-year-olds in each local education authority in England who have left school with fewer than five GCSE passes above C grade for each of the last seven years. [30734]

Mr. Forth

Information on school leavers is no longer collected by the Department. The attached table lists the percentage of 15-year-old pupils, at the start of the academic year, achieving fewer than five GCSE passes above grade C in maintained schools, including grant-maintained and special schools, in each local education authority area in England for the last three years.

Percentage of 15-year-old pupils achieving fewer than five GCSEs at grade C or above
LEA 1992 1993 1994
Camden 65.4 62.5 59.4
Greenwich 76.7 74.0 73.0
Hackney 80.6 76.3 77.3
Hammersmith 73.1 72.1 68.1
Islington 80.5 80.0 78.1
Kensington and Chelsea 71.9 69.2 65.5

Percentage of 15-year-old pupils achieving fewer than five GCSEs at grade C or above
LEA 1992 1993 1994
Lambeth 81.8 78.9 78.0
Lewisham 74.8 74.6 72.9
Southwark 84.9 81.8 81.7
Tower Hamlets 84.0 81.1 81.3
Wandsworth 73.8 71.9 70.9
Westminster 76.1 73.4 74.9
Barking 84.5 80.5 72.4
Barnet 57.2 54.5 48.9
Bexley 65.7 61.0 59.7
Brent 71.2 67.5 65.1
Bromley 55.7 54.8 50.8
Croydon 62.0 62.2 62.8
Ealing 73.2 72.2 67.8
Enfield 67.6 62.8 59.6
Haringey 76.0 75.3 71.6
Harrow 50.3 55.5 51.6
Havering 61.6 58.6 57.5
Hillingdon 64.8 63.5 62.3
Hounslow 65.1 64.6 59.7
Kingston upon Thames 53.7 47.6 48.4
Merton 66.8 66.3 66.6
Newham 79.3 78.0 77.0
Redbridge 62.7 59.5 53.5
Richmond upon Thames 57.5 55.3 50.0
Sutton 54.4 49.9 47.1
Waltham Forest 74.2 68.9 69.9
Birmingham 74.9 73.1 69.6
Coventry 67.2 66.6 65.7
Dudley 64.9 62.0 58.6
Sandwell 78.1 77.9 72.7
Solihull 58.3 55.9 52.0
Walsall 68.6 69.9 67.7
Wolverhampton 75.3 70.4 70.4
Knowsley 83.7 83.4 78.7
Liverpool 78.5 75.2 75.0
St. Helens 69.5 67.4 64.5
Sefton 63.1 55.9 54.9
Wirral 63.4 60.6 60.3
Bolton 64.7 62.2 58.1
Bury 59.5 53.8 54.4
Manchester 81.4 79.5 76.8
Oldham 72.9 67.4 67.9
Rochdale 74.0 70.0 67.7
Salford 74.8 70.4 70.9
Stockport 59.3 54.2 51.4
Tameside 70.1 68.3 65.8
Trafford 63.4 59.1 55.9
Wigan 60.7 58.5 58.3
Barnsley 75.9 75.5 70.2
Doncaster 72.3 68.2 66.3
Rotherham 70.3 65.8 65.2
Sheffield 70.8 66.5 64.4
Bradford 77.3 74.7 73.3
Calderdale 67.0 66.4 63.2
Kirklees 68.5 64.6 62.7
Leeds 68.7 66.3 63.8
Wakefield 72.2 68.8 64.4
Gateshead 71.5 66.3 66.4
Newcastle upon Tyne 73.1 69.6 69.7
North Tyneside 65.3 62.7 58.8
South Tyneside 70.1 68.2 64.5
Sunderland 71.8 69.4 70.0
Isles of Scilly 42.9 25.0 32.0
Avon 63.9 62.8 59.9
Bedfordshire 65.1 61.9 59.7
Berkshire 59.1 55.9 51.8
Buckinghamshire 56.4 53.2 50.6
Cambridgeshire 60.5 58.9 56.7
Cheshire 58.9 55.6 53.0
Cleveland 70.2 68.7 65.2
Cornwall 61.9 58.3 54.0
Cumbria 62.5 59.5 56.6

Percentage of 15-year-old pupils achieving fewer than five GCSEs at grade C or above
LEA 1992 1993 1994
Derbyshire 63.9 62.2 59.1
Devon 62.2 59.5 57.1
Dorset 59.3 55.7 50.7
Durham 68.2 65.7 65.4
East Sussex 59.9 57.9 56.7
Essex 63.2 61.0 58.6
Gloucestershire 57.2 55.2 53.7
Hampshire 60.6 58.4 55.7
Hereford and Worcester 62.1 59.6 56.2
Hertfordshire 56.4 55.1 52.4
Humberside 69.2 68.8 66.2
Isle of Wight 64.9 64.8 59.5
Kent 63.0 61.0 59.6
Lancashire 63.5 60.6 58.9
Leicestershire 66.8 62.4 60.7
Lincolnshire 63.4 61.1 57.4
Norfolk 64.5 61.3 59.9
North Yorkshire 57.2 52.6 51.0
Northamptonshire 63.8 62.0 61.1
Northumberland 62.1 59.1 58.7
Nottinghamshire 70.2 66.9 65.4
Oxfordshire 58.7 55.2 53.7
Shropshire 59.6 56.8 52.7
Somerset 57.2 56.1 52.6
Staffordshire 66.8 63.5 61.9
Suffolk 61.0 56.5 55.9
Surrey 55.7 53.0 52.2
Warwickshire 63.0 60.2 57.4
West Sussex 53.8 52.8 49.6
Wiltshire 59.8 57.3 54.5

Mr. Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list the percentage of those students who remain at school or college to take A-levels who have failed to complete two or more of their A-levels in each of the last 15 years for each local education authority. [30742]

Mr. Forth

This information is not available.

Mr. Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list, by local education authority, the number of 16-year-olds in each local education authority in England who have left school with no formal qualifications for each of the last five years. [30735]

Mr. Forth

Information on school leavers is no longer collected by the Department. The table lists the percentage of 15-year-old pupils, at the start of the academic year, achieving no GCSE passes in maintained schools, including grant-maintained and special schools, in each local education authority area in England for the last three years.

Percentage of 15-year-old pupils with no passes at GCSE
LEA 1992 1993 1994
Camden 13.5 10.7 11.3
Greenwich 15.7 12.5 14.6
Hackney 18.3 11.2 11.5
Hammersmith 16.7 11.0 11.3
Islington 23.7 18.1 14.8
Kensington and Chelsea 13.5 6.6 12.3
Lambeth 24.1 20.8 16.0
Lewisham 13.5 10.7 9.1
Southwark 19.7 12.5 14.6
Tower Hamlets 20.5 14.8 11.9
Wandsworth 12.1 11.4 12.5
Westminster 13.0 11.2 12.5

Percentage of 15-year-old pupils with no passes at GCSE
LEA 7992 1993 1994
Barking 13.2 9.9 10.7
Barnet 9.9 7.2 6.3
Bexley 6.3 5.0 6.4
Brent 10.3 9.8 7.0
Bromley 8.0 5.0 4.5
Croydon 6.8 7.4 8.6
Ealing 12.5 11.6 9.1
Enfield 8.2 6.3 6.3
Haringey 18.7 15.3 12.4
Harrow 2.4 5.0 5.2
Havering 5.7 4.1 6.3
Hillingdon 18.0 6.5 7.7
Hounslow 9.7 9.6 10.0
Kingston upon Thames 6.5 6.9 7.7
Merton 10.0 8.8 9.7
Newham 17.1 12.1 12.0
Redbridge 7.6 6.1 5.3
Richmond upon Thames 8.1 5.6 7.4
Sutton 5.7 5.5 5.6
Waltham Forest 8.6 7.6 9.3
Birmingham 13.4 12.4 13.1
Coventry 8.2 8.8 9.3
Dudley 4.0 4.0 6.4
Sandwell 9.9 9.7 10.9
Solihull 3.4 3.5 3.5
Walsall 9.9 9.4 9.9
Wolverhampton 10.2 7.7 11.0
Knowsley 19.5 20.7 20.2
Liverpool 16.6 16.5 16.3
St. Helens 10.3 8.4 8.6
Sefton 7.9 8.3 7.6
Wirral 7.9 7.1 9.7
Bolton 9.5 9.0 9.0
Bury 6.3 3.4 3.4
Manchester 23.0 20.1 19.6
Oldham 13.1 10.8 12.0
Rochdale 15.8 11.8 11.2
Salford 11.2 12.8 13.9
Stockport 6.0 4.6 5.7
Tameside 8.3 6.8 8.0
Trafford 7.5 6.1 8.0
Wigan 6.0 5.1 6.6
Barnsley 9.9 9.2 11.3
Doncaster 10.9 9.1 12.3
Rotherham 7.0 6.1 10.1
Sheffield 11.9 9.5 10.6
Bradford 12.2 11.5 11.2
Calderdale 9.7 7.3 9.4
Kirklees 8.9 8.6 9.5
Leeds 10.5 10.0 11.4
Wakefield 8.9 8.0 9.5
Gateshead 9.4 10.7 12.1
Newcastle upon Tyne 13.9 14.0 17.5
North Tyneside 8.9 7.7 8.7
South Tyneside 7.3 6.9 8.7
Sunderland 7.9 9.0 9.9
Isles of Scilly 0.0 0.0 0.0
Avon 7.0 6.1 6.9
Bedfordshire 5.4 5.2 5.5
Berkshire 6.6 5.3 5.4
Buckinghamshire 8.8 4.9 5.1
Cambridgeshire 6.4 6.2 6.7
Cheshire 6.4 5.1 5.6
Cleveland 11.0 10.4 11.1
Cornwall 4.7 3.8 3.5
Cumbria 7.0 5.6 6.8
Derbyshire 5.6 4.9 6.1
Devon 5.5 4.7 5.1
Dorset 4.3 4.3 4.5
Durham 7.4 7.0 9.4
East Sussex 6.1 6.5 7.2
Essex 6.3 6.0 6.4
Gloucestershire 4.9 4.3 4.4

Percentage of 15-year-old pupils with no passes at GCSE
LEA 1992 1993 1994
Hampshire 6.4 5.2 5.2
Hereford and Worcester 6.3 5.3 6.0
Hertfordshire 6.5 5.7 5.4
Humberside 8.5 8.4 10.1
Isle of Wight 2.7 4.2 4.6
Kent 7.7 6.0 6.4
Lancashire 8.6 7.3 7.8
Leicestershire 7.5 6.1 6.9
Lincolnshire 6.0 5.8 6.6
Norfolk 6.5 5.7 6.7
North Yorkshire 4.9 3.7 5.3
Northamptonshire 5.3 4.7 5.3
Northumberland 6.1 5.8 8.2
Nottinghamshire 8.1 7.3 9.0
Oxfordshire 6.4 4.6 6.7
Shropshire 3.2 3.8 3.9
Somerset 4.6 3.1 3.8
Staffordshire 7.4 5.9 7.7
Suffolk 3.9 3.4 3.7
Surrey 5.7 5.0 4.9
Warwickshire 4.9 4.7 5.8
West Sussex 5.0 4.1 5.1
Wiltshire 4.1 3.5 4.5

Mr. Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many 16-year-olds in each London borough have left school with fewer than five GCSE passes above grade C for each of the last seven years. [30743]

Mr. Forth

Information on school leavers is no longer collected by the Department. The attached table lists the percentage of 15-year-old pupils, at the beginning of the academic year, achieving fewer than five GCSE passes above grade C in maintained schools, including grant maintained and special schools, in each London borough for the last three years. The available data on school leavers for earlier years were not robust enough to be analysed at the individual borough level.

Percentage of 15-year-old pupils achieving fewer than five GCSEs at grade C or above London boroughs
LEA 1992 1993 1994
Camden 65.4 62.5 59.4
Greenwich 76.7 74.0 73.0
Hackney 80.6 76.3 77.3
Hammersmith 73.1 72.1 68.1
Islington 80.5 80.0 78.1
Kensington and Chelsea 71.9 69.2 65.5
Lambeth 81.8 78.9 78.0
Lewisham 74.8 74.6 72.9
Southwark 84.9 81.8 81.7
Tower Hamlets 84.0 81.1 81.3
Wandsworth 73.8 71.9 70.9
Westminster 76.1 73.4 74.9
Barking 84.5 80.5 72.4
Barnet 57.2 54.5 48.9
Bexley 65.7 61.0 59.7
Brent 71.2 67.5 65.1
Bromley 55.7 54.8 50.8
Croydon 62.0 62.2 62.8
Ealing 73.2 72.2 67.8
Enfield 67.6 62.8 59.6
Haringey 76.0 75.3 71.6
Harrow 50.3 55.5 51.6
Havering 61.6 58.6 57.5
Hillingdon 64.8 63.5 62.3
Hounslow 65.1 64.6 59.7
Kingston upon Thames 53.7 47.6 48.4
Merton 66.8 66.3 66.6

Percentage of 15-year-old pupils achieving fewer than five GCSEs at grade C or above London boroughs
LEA 1992 1993 1994
Newham 79.3 78.0 77.0
Redbridge 62.7 59.5 53.5
Richmond upon Thames 57.5 55.3 50.0
Sutton 54.4 49.9 47.1
Waltham Forest 74.2 68.9 69.9