§ Mr. Raffanasked the Secretary of State for Wales how many people were employed in Wales in March 1974; of
Number of pupils/students in maintained primary, secondary, further and higher education* thousands 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 Actual Projections† Primary education 262.5 258.0 255.0 252.0 253.0 254.0 257.0 257.0 263.0 265.0 267.0 Secondary education 235.6 232.0 226.0 219.0 210.0 200.0 191.0 186.0 182.0 183.0 184.0 Further education 60.1 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. Higher education 15.5 ‡16.4 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. *At January for schools; at November for higher and further education. Each part-time pupil/student is counted as 1. †School pupil projections have been derived from the 1981-based end-year projections of the home population of Wales produced by the Government Actuary's Department. These indicate what the population is likely to be, given certain hypotheses of births, deaths and migration. ‡Provisional estimate.