§ Mr. Joplingasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proportion of children leaving secondary schools run by Westmorland County Council in each of the last five years have voluntarily stayed on after the statutory minimum school leaving age.
§ Mr. Gordon WalkerStatistics of school leavers are based on an annual 157W survey of 10 per cent. of such leavers. The results from such a sample survey are adequate for analysis on a national basis but not sufficiently reliable for conclusions to be drawn about the position in individual local authority areas. However, the annual survey of pupils in school in January, based on a full census, shows that the percentages of pupils in maintained schools, excluding special schools, aged 15 in relation to those aged 13 two years earlier are, in Westmorland, as follows:
1963 … … … 45.4 1964 … … … 45.1 1965 … … … 50.6 1966 … … … 49.2 1957 … … … 56.9