School Leaving

(asked on 3rd May 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of 16 and 17 year olds participated in full-time education in England in (a) 2005 and (b) 2015.


Answered by
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Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 9th May 2016

The proportion of 16 and 17 year olds in full-time education in England was 70.3% at the end of 2005 and 82.2% at the end of 2014 (provisional figures). These figures are published in Table A7 of the ‘Additional tables – rates’ in the Statistical First Release (SFR) ‘Participation in education, training and employment’ and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-neet

Figures for end 2015 are not yet available but will be published on 30th June 2016 as part of the above series.

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