§ Mr. Randallasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the numbers and percentage of children staying on at school after the school-leaving age in Gateshead for the latest available date; and how these figures compare with other comparable boroughs.
§ Miss Bacon:The table below shows the number of pupils in maintained schools (excluding special schools) in January, 1967, aged 15, 16, 17 and 18, as a percentage of those aged 13 two, three, four and five years earlier in Gateshead and in those boroughs which are most comparable in size:
15 16 17 18 Gateshead 26.4 17.3 9.4 2.9 Blackburn 35.5 19.2 8.9 2.4 Oldham 28.5 16.9 8.1 3.7 Oxford 55.4 29.9 17.7 6.0 Preston 37.2 20.5 9.9 3.7 Solihull 72.3 37.3 22.0 6.8 South Shields 40.6 19.3 10.3 3.9 Wallasey 48.6 29.0 15.5 5.0 York 36.0 23.4 14.1 5.1