Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what statistics they keep of the outcomes for pupils after they leave school; and who is responsible for maintaining these records.

The department publishes statistics on pupils’ sustained education, apprenticeship or employment destinations in the year after they have left either key stage 4 or 16-18 study in England. Pupils must have six months of activity in a destination to be recorded as a sustained destination. Pupils who have some activity but do not meet the criteria for a sustained destination are recorded as having not sustained their destination. If there is no data available on a pupil they are record as activity not captured.

Various national administrative sources are used such as datasets from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, the Department for Work and Pensions and school census data to ascertain whether a pupil has sustained activity at a destination.

The latest publication and data can be found at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-destination-measures and https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/16-18-destination-measures. This data relates to pupils who left school in 2018/19 and follows their activity in 2019/20. More information on the methodology used can be found at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/methodology/key-stage-4-destination-measures-methodology and https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/methodology/16-18-destination-measures-methodology.