Education: Age Participation Rates

HL Deb 14 July 1997 vol 581 cc101-2WA

Lord Lucas

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What the "age participation rate for 1992" for the United Kingdom, published by the OECD in 1995 in Education at a Glance was; and what the age participation rate for the UK was, calculated on the same basis, at the most recent date for which data are available.

The Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment (Baroness Blackstone)

The age participation rates for 1992 for the UK were 56.7¹ at age 17 and 33.6¹ at age 18. Figures on the same basis for, 1995, the latest year for which data are available, are 59.8¹ and 39.8¹ respectively. These figures refer to full-time enrolments. They are not comparable to the estimates for 1994 for the UK and other countries published in the 1996

Accidents and Casualties involving stationary vehicles on Motorway hard shoulder/lay-bys: Great Britain 1989–1996
Number of Accidents
Accident Severity	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
Fatal	17	19	11	13	18	10	10	12
Serious	38	40	27	21	18	16	28	14
Slight	49	49	46	50	46	46	50	35
Total	104	108	84	84	82	72	88	61

Number of Casualties
Casualties	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
Fatal	19	23	13	14	33	11	11	13
Serious	54	55	41	32	35	22	39	28
Slight	138	138	124	100	111	85	125	76
Total	211	216	178	146	179	118	175	117

edition of Education at a Glance, as these include part-time enrolments.

¹ per cent.