§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has, by year for the last 10 years and by local education authority, on the percentage of pupils leaving school who have literacy problems.
§ Mr. Alan HowarthThe Department does not collect statistics on pupils leaving school with literacy problems. The attached tables show, for all LEAs in the regions and the larger LEAs individually, for three years, the percentage of pupils leaving school without a graded result in English.
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Maintained schools in England Percentage of school leavers with no graded result in English LEAs 1977–78 1982–83 1987–88 Avon 16.3 11.9 13.2 Bedfordshire 22.2 18.2 15.0 Berkshire 17.7 10.5 10.7 Birmingham 28.6 23.0 20.5 Bolton 29.1 25.4 14.7 Bradford 32.1 23.3 28.5 Buckinghamshire 15.1 8.3 10.4 Cambridgeshire 22.9 17.2 10.3 Cheshire 22.8 18.7 13.7 Cleveland 18.5 15.2 19.4 Cornwall' 22.8 13.0 14.9 Coventry 20.8 18.0 16.1 Cumbria 17.3 15.7 13.5 Derbyshire 23.3 16.1 14.7 Devon 21.7 12.2 11.3 Doncaster 24.2 21.2 21.0 Dorset 18.1 10.7 9.8 Dudley 25.7 13.6 12.1 Durham 20.4 19.0 17.6 East Sussex 20.3 17.2 11.8 Essex 19.6 15.0 13.5 Gloucestershire 20.3 11.6 11.3 Hampshire 20.7 12.1 12.4 Hereford and Worcester 21.5 13.5 12.7 Hertfordshire 15.5 14.4 14.6 Humberside 23.5 20.3 14.5 Inner London 31.6 27.3 28.0 Kent 22.1 12.8 15.6 Kirklees 23.2 15.9 21.0 Lancashire 23.3 19.8 18.3 Leeds 24.2 17.7 20.1 Leicestershire 25.5 18.6 18.1 Lincolnshire 18.5 11.7 13.8 Liverpool 27.9 26.8 34.2 Manchester 28.2 32.1 39.1 Norfolk 27.4 22.1 19.1 North Yorkshire 18.0 14.0 14.9 Northamptonshire 23.6 13.0 17.1 Northumberland 15.6 8.1 12.7 Nottinghamshire 28.1 14.3 13.0 Oxfordshire 19.3 9.6 11.8 Rotherham 23.8 18.6 17.1 Sandwell 35.1 23.4 21.5 Sefton 18.9 17.3 19.6 Sheffield 13.8 17.1 17.0 Shropshire 25.2 13.6 14.7 Somerset 24.8 13.6 8.9 Staffordshire 32.8 18.0 15.9 Stockport 22.8 15.6 15.6 Suffolk 28.6 18.9 13.4 Sunderland 21.4 14.1 19.0 Surrey 16.1 10.1 9.3 Wakefield 30.8 23.8 21.5 Walsall 33.1 20.7 19.9 Warwickshire 20.2 9.2 14.2
LEAs 1977–78 1982–83 1987–88 West Sussex 15.8 8.9 7.3 Wigan 23.9 15.8 11.6 Wiltshire 18.6 10.3 13.1 Wirral 18.6 15.5 20.6 Regions North 19.1 14.8 16.5 Yorkshire and Humberside 23.4 19.1 18.6 North West 24.8 21.2 20.3 East Midlands 24.4 15.1 15.1 West Midlands 27.3 17.3 16.2 East Anglia 26.4 19.5 14.7 Greater London 25.0 20.4 20.1 Other South East 19.0 12.7 12.5 South West 19.9 11.9 11.9 Total 22.9 16.7 16.2 1 Including the Isles of Scilly.