Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of adults over 25 years of age who have undertaken a non-university course in each of the last five years.

The number of learners aged 25 and over participating on government-funded further education courses in each academic year are shown in the attached table. These figures include learners on government-funded further education courses that are delivered in higher education institutions.