HC Deb 09 May 1990 vol 172 c139W
Mr. Fatchett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will set out the latest available figures on the number of 16 to 18-year-olds on YTS who receive part-time education at further education colleges.

Mr. Jackson

In November 1988 the number of students studying part-time in maintained colleges of FE in England as part of a YTS was as follows:

Aged 16 Aged 17 Aged 18 Aged 16–18
All part-time (including evening) 62,000 56,000 5,000 123,000

The ages are those at 31 August 1988.