§ Mr. Phillip Oppenheimasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the latest figures available regarding the numbers of schoolchildren in Debyshire who continued into higher and further education; and what were the comparable figures in 1979.
§ Mr. WaldenThe information is not available in the form requested. The number of leavers from maintained schools in Derbyshire in the academic year 1984–85 who intended directly to persue a full-time course of further or higher education was 3,780. This represented 25.6 per cent. of the total number of leavers. Comparable figures for the academic year 1978–79 were 2,630 and 18.9 per cent. respectively.