PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Unemployment: Young People (9 March 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his Answer of 6 March to Question 129597 on Unemployment: Young People, how many and what proportion of pupils who were (a) eligible for free school meals, (b) not eligible for free school meals, who were (i) included in the Children in Need census, (ii) not included in the Children in Need census, were not in education, employment or training for the whole of academic year 2013-14, three years after finishing key stage 4, in each ethnic group.

Asked by:
Alex Burghart (Conservative)

The following tables show the number and proportion of pupils that were not in education, employment or training for the whole of academic year 2013-14, three years after finishing key stage 4. These figures include those eligible for free school meals, whether or not they were in the Children in Need census and their summary ethnic group. Pupils whose eligibility for free school meals is unknown are not included in these tables.

	Eligible for free school meals between 10 and 15		Not eligible for free school meals between 10 and 15
Summary ethnic group	In the Children in Need census	Not in the Children in Need census	In the Children in Need census	Not in the Children in Need census
White	7,900 (26%)	6,300 (9%)	4,800 (19%)	6,400 (2%)
Mixed	500 (22%)	300 (6%)	200 (17%)	200 (2%)
Black	400 (15%)	300 (3%)	200 (14%)	200 (1%)
Asian	200 (11%)	300 (2%)	200 (10%)	300 (1%)
Any other group	100 (12%)	100 (2%)	100 (22%)	less than 100 (1%)
Unknown	600 (31%)	300 (10%)	300 (21%)	300 (1%)
Total	9,600 (24%)	7,500 (7%)	5,800 (18%)	7,400 (2%)

Numbers are rounded to the nearest 100.

Answered by:
Anne Milton (Independent)
19 March 2018