To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the numbers of students in higher education in (a) arts and humanittes and (b) sciences in each year from 1978–79 to the last year for which figures are available.

Readily available information is shown in the following table: introduce, from 1991–92, fees differentiated by the cost of groups of courses. Copies of the paper have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses.