§ Gregory BarkerTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list the colleges of further and higher education in England and Wales indicating the(a) capacity limit figures for each college and (b) actual numbers of (i) full-time and (ii) part-time students for each academic year since 1997–98. [96658]
§ Margaret HodgeThe Learning and Skills Council (LSC) does not collect capacity information in this form.
The LSC publication 'Summary Statistics' available on the LSC website(http://www.lscdata.gov.uk/data/ summarystatistics.html) provides student numbers in further education colleges in England for the most recent year 1999–2000. Prior to the LSC, the Further Education Funding Council (FEFC) published Performance Indicators' which provides student numbers in further education colleges in England for the years 1997–98 and 1998–99, this information is also available on the LSC website (http://www.lscdata.gov.uk/data/ performanceindicators.html).