§ Mr. Hiltonasked the Minister of Education to give the latest available figures showing the total number of young persons released from employment for further education, and the number of young persons in agriculture who are released from employment for further education.
§ Sir E. BoyleThis information is given in "Statistics of Education, Part Two", Table 18, published last week, a copy of which is in the Library of the House, and shows that in November, 1961, 493,827 students were released by their employers during working hours to take part-time day courses at grant-aided establishments. 5,699 of these were employed in agriculture, forestry and fishing.