§ Mr. J. E. B. Hillasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) what is his estimate of the total annual expenditure on adult non-vocational education in each of the last five years made by local educational authorities, distinguishing between grants made by them to the responsible bodies and expenditure on courses provided by the local educational authorities themselves, giving the estimated number of courses provided and students enrolled;
(2) what in the latest convenient year was the estimated expenditure on adult non-vocational education made by individual local education authorities, grouped by regions, on courses provided by themselves and in grants to the responsible bodies, giving the estimated number of courses provided and students enrolled.
§ Mr. Edward ShortReturns from local authorities do not distinguish expenditure on adult non-vocational education from expenditure on further education as a whole. Information about numbers of students in England and Wales over the period 1961 to 1967 is to be found in Table 5 of Statistics of Education 1967, Volume 3. Regional figures for 1967 are to be found in Table 4. Information about the number of courses is not available.