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Table 2: Percentage of Entrants to Postgraduate ITT with UK 1st or 2nd Class Honours Degree
Academic Year	Percentage awarded 2:2 or higher for 1st degree
1998-99	92%
1999-00	92%
2000-01	92%
2001-02	92%
2002-03	92%
2003-04	92%
2004-05	92%
2005-06	93%
Source: TDA performance profiles

Notes

1. Includes Universities and other Higher Education Institutions, SCITT Open University and employment-based ITT.

2. Excludes those trainees with a UK degree for which the classification was unknown and not defined.

3. Excludes entrants with an degree-equivalent qualification or non-UK degree

Young People: Custody

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer asked Her Majesty's Government:

What proportion of young people aged (a) 16 to 18, and (b) 19 to 21 find paid employment within six months of leaving custody; and what schemes are in place to increase this proportion. [HL1477]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Hunt of Kings Heath): The Government's strategy to help reduce reoffending by improving skills and employment opportunities for offenders, including young offenders, is set out in the 2005 Green Paper Reducing Re-Offending through Skills and Employment, jointly produced by the Department for Education and Skills, the Home Office and the Department for Work and Pensions. A follow-up document Reducing Re-Offending through Skills and Employment: Next Steps was published in December 2006.

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