HC Deb 21 October 1991 vol 196 cc358-61W
Mr. Andrew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has on how many students have enrolled on adult education causes over the last three years, analysed by local education authority.

Mr. Eggar

Further education enrolments by local education authorities in England of people aged 19 and over in LEA-maintained FE colleges and adult education centres from 1988–89 to 1990–91 are as follows:

LEA maintained further education colleges1 Adult Education Centres
1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91
Dudley 14,082 17,901 19,739 840 693
Sandwell 7,652 8,082 8,317 5,431 5,243 4,233
Solihull 3,870 4,992 4,840 6,355 6,478 6,296
Walsall 4,537 4,701 5,170 12,561 11,253 12,716
Wolverhampton 8,293 8,075 9,645 9,951 10,175 10,611
Knowsley 3,586 4,947 3,905
Liverpool 17,308 18,225 17,165 18,673 19,268 19,457
St. Helens 8,086 7,807 7,026
Sefton 8,046 7,775 8,454 2,884 3,436 3,746
Wirral 17,320 18,380 17,214
Bolton 14,194 13,370 4,503 2 410,000
Bury 2,409 2,442 2,787 6,565 6,477 6,555
Manchester 32,292 37,721 12,613 512,967
Oldham 2,250 2,456 2,019 11,211 11,204 9,282
Rochdale 8,004 4,554 6,098 1,240 3,242 3,232
Salford 1,560 1,929 9,634 6,743 7,123
Stockport 3,985 4,726 5,281 13,059 13,514 13,359
Tameside 9,585 9,744 8,700
Trafford 8,273 10,647 10,702
Wigan 9,431 9,893 10,316 3,153 3,584 2,453
Barnsley 3,122 3,137 3,485 5,047 5,269 422
Doncaster 14,159 14,473 13,875
Rotherham 13,001 14,083 12,898
Sheffield 23,828 25,459 25,801
Bradford 22,307 22,501 21,107
Calderdale 2,782 3,410 3,882 7,336 8,394 7,924
Kirklees 6,918 7,400 12,647 9,681 10,542 5,361
Leeds 15,052 15,541 19,925 23,734 22,949 21,600
Wakefield 5,024 5,556 5,561 7,056 7,125 6,953
Gateshead 4,000 5,032 5,153 1,430 1,710 1,251
Newcastle upon Tyne 5,802 6,445 5,880 7,264 5,923 5,540
North Tyneside 4,985 4,093 4,110 6,131 8,374 6,524
South Tyneside 4,306 5,461 5,889 800 1,119 1,030
Sunderland 5,017 5,759 7,087 3,334 3,673 3,191
Avon 25,199 29,665 31,794 17,846 17,892 19,094
Bedfordshire 10,299 12,059 12,047 15,747 19,271 18,917
Berkshire 26,712 28,213 29,593 6,421 5,601 5,967
Buckinghamshire 7,088 6,324 7,542 25,189 21,369 30,900
Cambridgeshire 12,030 12,128 11,583 20,871 30,471 20,921
Cheshire 22,960 23,335 26,212 21,599 18,124 16,152
Cleveland 18,205 18,869 19,341 19,150 19,169 19,427
Cornwall 1,918 3,790 4,474 15,038 16,322 17,385
Cumbria 7,501 8,025 7,841 14,385 13,178 13,383
Derbyshire 12,108 14,326 19,171 28,887 25,311 27,399
Devon 13,363 15,769 16,209 31,224 34,103 33,180
Dorset 8,063 9,797 9,301 20,673 21,240 22,572
Durham 14,149 16,700 17,023 3,254 3,217 3,129
East Sussex 23,892 25,777 24,121 5,139 4,913 7,843
Essex 25,322 25,418 28,350 57,042 61,709 60,832
Gloucestershire 15,730 18,196 20,997 563 539 317
Hampshire 22,288 25,714 26,666 62,095 65,481 58,553
Hereford and Worcester 20,097 22,623 23,993 1,321 404 347
Hertfordshire 53,445 60,520 55,598
Humberside 22,484 24,265 22,115 23,663 25,260 32,119
Isle of Wight 4,931 5,788 5,958
Kent 11,569 12,298 13,685 65,165 61,934 64,600
Lancashire 63,993 71,610 71,823 9,391 4,851 5,081
Leicestershire 15,306 16,011 16,087 32,844 34,506 34,840
Lincolnshire 6,313 7,453 7,645 13,305 14,574 13,596
Norfolk 7,634 8,637 8,873 27,260 29,418 29,770
North Yorkshire 20,361 25,008 20,903 8,695 8,157 8,058
Northamptonshire 9,896 11,399 12,752 20,893 19,199 15,753
Northumberland 3,067 3,369 3,473 9,672 10,537 11,486
Nottinghamshire 50,022 43,162 52,056 5,053 4,640 5,081
Oxfordshire 15,816 16,900 15,982 18,832 20,665 20,108
Shropshire 18,506 17,587 18,929
Somerset 22,269 18,308 16,110 8,807 10,000 8,008
Staffordshire 24,412 25,313 26,390 17,721 16,791 16,947
Suffolk 20,694 21,659 21,082 7,227 6.521 6,869
Surrey 7,292 7,965 7,753 57,227 56,872 57,018
Warwickshire 14,348 13,305 15,703 8,078 10,976 9,952
West Sussex 6,315 7,878 7,725 36,821 39,655 38,588
Wiltshire 28,808 30,320 32,392
ENGLAND 1,216,938 1,289,920 1,306,394 1,284,623 1,303,652 1,266,216

1 This table excludes enrolments on further education courses in PCFC colleges.

2 Includes students aged 16 to 18.

3 Adult education centre data are not available for individual London boroughs prior to the abolition of the Inner London Education Authority on 1 April 1990, and data on colleges are not readily available prior to 1 November 1989.

4 Provisional.

5 Figures subject to confirmation.

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