Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) the East Midlands and (c) England have no academic qualifications; and what proportion of the population that is.

Figures for the proportion of the population who do not hold academic qualifications are not available.

Labour Force Survey identifies people who have qualifications below Level 2, including those who have no qualifications. The figures are published annually at national level as part of the Further Education and Skills statistical release:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-and-skills-march-2017

In 2016 an estimated 5,623,000 adults aged 19-64 years had highest level of qualification below Level 2, amounting to 17.2% of the population. This information can be found in Table 15.1.

The enhanced methodology used to produce these figures, which was agreed with the Office for National Statistics, does not support local area subnational breakdowns. Regional breakdowns have not been published in recent years.