Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many young people aged (a) 16, (b) 17 and (c) 18 currently participate in tertiary education.

The department’s official estimates of participation in education, training and employment for young people academic age 16-18 are published annually. Latest figures were published in June 2017 and relate to a snapshot of young people at the end of the previous calendar year (end 2016). End 2017 figures will be published end June 2018. These official participation estimates are published on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/participation-in-education-training-and-employment-2016.