§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list by local education authority the number and percentage of 18-year-olds with five GCSE passes or equivalent in(a) 1997, (b) 1998 and (c) 1999. [101519]
§ Ms Estelle Morris[holding answer 8 December 1999]: The numbers of 18-year-olds with five GCSE passes or equivalent in 1997 and 1998 for local education authorities in England are shown in the following table. Figures for 1999, other than those released last month in performance tables, are not yet available. It is not possible to provide percentages as these may be misleading—population estimates for local education authorities are based on the resident population, and the GCSE data are institution based. Percentages for individual local education authorities would therefore be distorted by students who are resident in one authority but who took their GCSEs in another.
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Number of 18-year-olds with 5+A*-G GCSE/GNVQ LEA 1997 1998 City of London 213 203 Camden 1,823 1,989 Greenwich 1,862 1,810 Hackney 860 924 Hammersmith and Fulham 1,060 1,224
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Number of 18-year-olds with 5+A*-G GCSE/GNVQ LEA 1997 1998 Islington 1,139 1,141 Kensington and Chelsea 1,107 1,153 Lambeth 608 626 Lewisham 1,806 1,949 Southwark 1,284 1,395 Tower Hamlets 1,281 1,425 Wandsworth 1,828 1,807 City of Westminster 1,282 1,410 Barking and Dagenham 1,422 1,436 Barnet 3,371 3,544 Bexley 2,081 2,136 Brent 1,334 1,566 Bromley 3,312 3,391 Croydon 3,533 3,524 Ealing 1,901 2,174 Enfield 2,504 2,645 Haringey 1,056 1,105 Harrow 2,635 2,540 Havering 2,820 2,811 Hillingdon 2,387 2,529 Hounslow 1,965 2,036 Kingston upon Thames 1,776 1,803 Merton 1,260 1,295 Newham 1,630 1,949 Redbridge 2,373 2,515 Richmond upon Thames 2,051 2,150 Sutton 1,639 1,777 Waltham Forest 2,098 2,283 Birmingham 9,438 10,007 Coventry 3,053 3,147 Dudley 3,529 3,738 Sandwell 2,469 2,577
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Number of 18-year-olds with 5+A*-G GCSE/GNVQ LEA 1997 1998 Solihull 3,038 3,068 Walsall 2,639 2,688 Wolverhampton 2,474 2,587 Knowsley 1,205 1,233 Liverpool 4,082 4,188 St. Helens 2,045 2,034 Sefton 3,498 3,565 Wirral 3,642 3,697 Bolton 2,781 2,878 Bury 2,331 2,353 Manchester 3,523 3,634 Oldham 2,749 2,932 Rochdale 1,798 1,980 Salford 1,928 2,046 Stockport 3,487 3,682 Tameside 2,203 2,363 Trafford 2,128 2,215 Wigan 4,065 4,215 Barnsley 2,009 2,019 Doncaster 2,704 2,908 Rotherham 2,857 3,056 Sheffield 4,372 4,543 Bradford 4,884 5,179 Calderdale 1,888 1,978 Kirklees 4,277 4,396 Leeds 6,699 7,069 Wakefield 3,464 3,544 Gateshead 1,927 1,936 Newcastle upon Tyne 2,673 2,827 North Tyneside 2,202 2,204 South Tyneside 1,599 1,678 Sunderland 3,242 3,280 Isles of Scilly 8 13 Bath and North East Somerset 2,192 2,174 City of Bristol 3,458 3,633 North Somerset 1,841 1,914 South Gloucestershire 2,591 2,676 Hartlepool 978 976 Middlesbrough 1,663 1,812 Redcar and Cleveland 1,695 1,688 Stockton on Tees 1,979 1,993 City of Kingston upon Hull 2,773 2,720 East Riding of Yorkshire 2,951 2,959 North East Lincolnshire 1,835 1,969 North Lincolnshire 1,837 1,913 North Yorkshire 5,963 6,207 City of York 2,221 2,109 Bedfordshire 4,401 4,528 Luton 2,024 2,063 Buckinghamshire 5,220 5,303 Milton Keynes 2,237 2,229 Derbyshire 7,322 7,498 City of Derby 2,264 2,399 Dorset 3,729 3,848 Poole 1,944 2,034 Bournemouth 1,273 1,280 Durham 5,110 5,118 Darlington 1,268 1,314 East Sussex 4,491 4,687 Brighton and Hove 2,289 2,276 Hampshire 13,570 14,290 Portsmouth 1,383 1,465 Southampton 2,197 2,227 Leicestershire 6,140 6,432 City of Leicester 2,921 3,162 Rutland 666 685 Staffordshire 8,671 9,137 Stoke-on-Trent 2,347 2,306 Wiltshire 4,297 4,271 Swindon 1,881 1,946 Berkshire 8,991 — Bracknell Forest — 1,271 Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead — 1,645
Number of 18-year-olds with5+A*-G GCSE/GNVQ LEA 1997 1998 West Berkshire — 2,033 Reading — 1,216 Slough — 1,359 Wokingham — 1,636 Cambridgeshire 7,544 — Cambridgeshire — 5,856 City of Peterborough — 2,114 Cheshire 11,059 — Cheshire — 7,802 Halton — 1,432 Warrington — 2,028 Devon 10,855 — Devon — 6,740 City of Plymouth — 2,885 Torbay — 1,419 Essex 16,759 — Essex — 13,943 Southend — 1,852 Thurrock — 1,423 Hereford and Worcester 7,829 — Herefordshire — 1,666 Worcestershire — 6,342 Kent 17,251 — Kent — 14,568 Medway — 3,211 Lancashire 14,352 — Lancashire — 10,869 Blackburn with Darwen — 2,173 Blackpool — 1,861 Nottinghamshire 10,038 — Nottinghamshire — 7,725 City of Nottingham — 2,924 Shropshire 5,145 — Shropshire — 3,161 Telford and Wrekin — 1,876 Cornwall 5,149 5,376 Cumbria 5,058 5,352 Gloucestershire 6,136 6,271 Hertfordshire 12,273 12,646 Isle of Wight 1,308 1,403 Lincolnshire 6,356 6,482 Norfolk 7,737 8,002 Northamptonshire 6,782 7,162 Northumberland 3,529 3,412 Oxfordshire 6,722 6,904 Somerset 5,624 5,846 Suffolk 7,191 7,298 Surrey 11,369 11,521 Warwickshire 5,761 5,936 West Sussex 7,719 7,794 All LEAs 502,370 519,398