§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what estimate his Department has made of the number of graduates who(a) find employment, (b) are unemployed, (c) have debt outstanding and (d) suffer bankruptcy within one year of graduating. [1047]
§ Dr. HowellsOf the 214,000 full-time degree graduates from HE institutions in the UK in the 1994–95 academic year, data on destinations six months after graduation are known for 178,000 of them. Of these, 106,000 entered employment and 15,000 were assumed unemployed. The remainder either entered further training, were not available for employment or training, or were overseas students returning overseas. The information requested on debt and bankruptcy is not held centrally.