HC Deb 12 December 1996 vol 287 cc314-5W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the proportion of gross domestic product spent on education in each Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development country in the last 10 years. [8557]

Mr. Paice

The information requested for those OECD countries for which data are available is shown in the table. The figures given are based on information provided by each country to OECD for its latest edition of "Education at a Glance", published on 9 December. Copies of "Education at a Glance" will shortly be available in the Library.

scheme, (12) the jobplan workshop, (13) the job review, (14) the job release scheme, (15) job review workshops, (16) the job start scheme, (17) the jobseeker's allowance, (18) the job share programme, (19) the job splitting scheme, (20) the job training programme, (21) learning for work, (22) job seminars, (23) local enterprise agencies, (24) Manpower Services Commission, (25) non-advanced and work-related further education, (26) new job training scheme, (27) the national policy skills scheme and (28) national record of achievement (a) went into employment and (b) went on to further schemes, including those who left before completion of the scheme, in each year of each scheme's operation; and what type and level of qualification each leaver obtained for each year to the latest available year for which data are available. [8738]

Mr. Paice

The information requested can be provided only at a disproportionate costs.