Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many and what proportion of students in further education colleges aged (a) 19 to 24 and (b) 25 and over are of each social grade.

Information on the social grade of further education learners is not centrally collected.

Table 2 of a Statistical First Release (SFR) presents data on the characteristics of government funded adult (19+) further education learners:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/learner-participation-outcomes-and-level-of-highest-qualification-held