HC Deb 03 February 2000 vol 343 cc697-8W
Mr. Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what proportion of the working-age population had a qualification in(a) 1998 and (b) 1999. [108350]

Mr. Wicks

The proportion of the working age population in the United Kingdom to have any qualification, as measured by the Labour Force Survey, was 82.1 per cent. in 1998 and 82.9 per cent. in 1999.