HC Deb 26 January 1995 vol 253 cc318-9W
Mr. Purchase

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what percentage of children between the ages of five and 16 years were educated in non-state schools in 1993–94; and what is her estimate of the percentage in 1994–95.

Mr. Robin Squire

In England in January 1994, 6.5 per cent. of pupils aged five to 16 were being taught in non-maintained schools. The projection for January 1995 is 6.3 per cent.