§ Mr. Marlowasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list (a) the percentage of students in each year obtaining five or more O-level passes 301W and (b) the percentage, taking the available age group and not just those in education, achieving two or more A-levels for each local education authority in England and Wales.
§ Mr. DunnThe information requested is not readily available. The percentages of maintained school leavers obtaining five or more higher grade passes at O-level/CSE and two or more A-level passes are as follows. Information for Wales is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
302W
Leavers in maintained schools in England Examination attainments of school leavers averaged over the academic years 1980–81, 1981–82 and 1982–83 Percentage with 5 or more higher grade passes at O-level or CSE* Percentage with 2 or more A-levels Barking 13.5 6.1 Barnet 35.7 22.4 Bexley 25.4 11.8 Brent 17.8 8.8 Bromley 28.8 14.4 Croydon 25.3 12.0 Eating 19.4 10.4 Enfield 22.9 13.1 Haringey 14.8 8.2 Harrow 37.2 21.2 Havering 25.2 12.1 Hillingdon 21.4 11.4 Hounslow 22.2 12.3 Kingston-upon-Thames 31.5 17.8 Merton 24.5 11.4 Newham 11.4 4.9 Redbridge 25.6 14.1 Richmond-upon-Thames 27.7 — Sutton 33.5 20.2 Waltham Forest 16.3 8.0 Birmingham 18.8 8.7 Coventry 21.7 9.4 Dudley 24.7 10.7 Sandwell 13.2 6.2 Solihull 26.3 14.1 Walsall 19.6 10.4 Wolverhampton 16.6 7.0 Knowsley 12.5 4.8 Liverpool 18.3 9.5 St. Helens 22.6 10.8 Sefton 28.1 14.6 Wirral 25.8 14.0 Bolton 23.2 12.4 Bury 26.3 11.6 Manchester 15.8 8.0 Oldham 12.8 5.9 Rochdale 18.0 10.2 Salford 16.9 8.5 Stockport 26.9 14.0 Tameside 19.1 7.3 Trafford 26.3 13.3 Wigan 22.9 8.5 Barnsley 15.8 6.9 Doncaster 17.5 9.4 Rotherham 18.2 8.1 Sheffield 20.4 10.6 Bradford 18.6 9.3 Calderdale 23.2 11.9 Kirklees 23.9 12.7 Leeds 22.6 12.2 Wakefield 16.9 6.0 Gateshead 17.4 7.5 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 20.5 11.4 North Tyneside 23.0 9.5 South Tyneside 18.5 6.7 Sunderland 18.8 7.3 Isles of Scilly 20.0 — ILEA 14.4 6.8
Percentage with 5 or more higher grade passes at O-level or CSE* Percentage with 2 or more A-levels Avon 22.9 11.0 Bedfordshire 21.2 9.8 Berkshire 25.4 13.0 Buckinghamshire 33.1 17.4 Cambridgeshire 25.8 10.8 Cheshire 25.1 13.9 Cleveland 22.7 10.9 Cornwall 25.3 11.1 Cumbria 23.9 12.3 Derbyshire 21.5 9.9 Devon 22.3 8.4 Dorset 26.8 13.6 Durham 19.2 9.1 East Sussex 27.6 13.4 Essex 23.7 11.0 Gloucestershire 27.4 13.5 Hampshire 24.9 11.6 Hereford & Worcester 23.5 10.5 Hertfordshire 30.6 14.9 Humberside 20.6 10.0 Isle of Wight 20.1 11.6 Kent 25.6 13.6 Lancashire 21.9 9.9 Leicestershire 22.7 13.8 Lincolnshire 23.5 10.9 Norfolk 19.3 8.7 North Yorkshire 28.5 15.3 Northamptonshire 18.8 9.3 Northumberland 25.5 11.8 Nottinghamshire 19.0 10.0 Oxfordshire 26.5 13.7 Shropshire 23.5 9.8 Somerset 20.5 6.1 Staffordshire 20.6 10.1 Suffolk 21.0 9.4 Surrey 33.0 17.4 Warwickshire 25.1 12.6 West Sussex 31.2 15.5 Wiltshire 24.2 10.9 Total 22.7 11.1 * O-level grades A-C, CSE Grade 1.