HC Deb 14 March 1968 vol 760 c344W
Mr. Padley

asked 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 each of the local education authorities in Wales.

Miss Bacon

The following table shows pupils aged 15 over school-leaving age, actual number in January, 1967, and as a percentage of the corresponding part of the age-group in 1965:

Counties Numbers Per cent.
Anglesey 294 55.2
Breconshire 289 55.0
Caernarvonshire 506 51.8
Cardiganshire 331 65.7
Carmarthenshire 739 49.3
Denbighshire 718 43.9
Flintshire 740 48.4
Glamorgan 2,927 39.0
Merioneth 222 68.3
Monmouthshire 1,380 40.7
Montgomeryshire 221 48.0
Pembrokeshire 551 58.1
Radnorshire 69 43.4
County Boroughs
Cardiff 1,174 46.4
Merthyr Tydfil 193 31.3
Newport (Mon.) 448 43.8
Swansea 655 44.7
All Wales 11,457 44.7