Full-time Education

HC Deb 07 November 1995 vol 265 cc794-5W

Mr. Win Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was(a) the number and (b) the percentage of 16-year-olds in full-time education in (i) school sixth forms, (ii) sixth form colleges and (iii) colleges of further education in each local education authority in each of the last three years. [41148]

Mr. Richards

The information requested is in the following tables.

61994–95
	Clwyd	Dyfed	Gwent	Gwynedd	Mid Glamorgan
	Number	Per cent.	Number	Per cent.	Number	Per cent.	Number	Per cent.	Number	Per cent.
In sixth form colleges5	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
In FE institutions5	1,712	36	1,116	27	1,178	23	942	35	1,342	21
Total	3,505	73	3,102	75	3,106	62	1,921	70	4,218	67

	Powys	South Glamorgan	West Glamorgan	Wales
	Number	Per cent.	Number	Per cent.	Number	Per cent.	Number	Per cent.
Population2	1,500	100	4,500	100	4,200	100	33,200	100
In schools3 4	691	47	1,967	43	854	20	13,074	39
In sixth form colleges5	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
In FE institutions5	317	21	1,394	31	2,251	53	10,252	31
	1,008	68	3,361	74	3,105	73	23,326	70

Notes:

¹Information based on providing LEA and not student domicile. Ages as at 31 August prior to academic year. Sixth Form Colleges transferred from LEA control on 1 April 1993 and are now funded by the FEFCW. From 1994–95 no distinction is made between Sixth Form Colleges and any other type of Further Education Institution.

² Population based on mid year estimates and rounded to nearest hundred.

³Includes all 16 year olds at Maintained, Grant Maintained, Independent and Special Schools.

⁴ At January each year.

⁵ At November each year.

⁶ Provisional.

Source:

FESR and STATS1.