To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many undergraduate students in each local authority area received discretionary awards;
| England and Wales—1987–88 | |||
| Mandatory and HE discretionary award-holders1 | HE discretionary award-holders1 | Percentage in receipt of an HE discretionary award | |
| Local Education Authority | |||
| Barking | 343 | 36 | 10 |
| Barnet | 4,023 | 204 | 5 |
| Bexley | 1,303 | 50 | 4 |
| Brent | 2,811 | 185 | 7 |
| Bromley | 3,115 | 164 | 5 |
| Croydon | 3,071 | 128 | 4 |
| Ealing | 2,713 | 247 | 9 |
| Enfield | 2,137 | 19 | 1 |
| Haringey | 1,923 | 132 | 7 |
| Harrow | 2,539 | 106 | 4 |
| Havering | 1,198 | 67 | 6 |
| Hillingdon | 1,590 | 83 | 5 |
| Hounslow | 1,625 | 45 | 3 |
| Kingston-Upon-Thames | 1,438 | 83 | 6 |
| Merton | 1,631 | 63 | 4 |
| Newham | 1,164 | 83 | 7 |
| Redbridge | 1,878 | 75 | 4 |
| Richmond-Upon-Thames | 2,082 | 119 | 6 |
| Sutton | 1,385 | 27 | 2 |
| Waltham Forest | 1,169 | 84 | 7 |
| ILEA | 22,908 | 6,033 | 26 |
| Birmingham | 7,327 | 368 | 5 |
| Coventry | 2,586 | 143 | 6 |
| Dudley | 1,941 | 47 | 2 |
| Sandwell | 1,368 | 110 | 8 |
| Solihull | 2,208 | 94 | 4 |
| Walsall | 1,825 | 83 | 5 |
| Wolverhampton | 1,941 | 82 | 4 |
| Knowsley | 800 | 26 | 3 |
| Liverpool | 3,580 | 126 | 4 |
| St. Helens | 1,444 | 47 | 3 |
| Sefton | 3,462 | 99 | 3 |
| Wirral | 3,523 | 13 | 0 |
| Bolton | 2,361 | 137 | 6 |
| Bury | 1,870 | 133 | 7 |
| Manchester | 3,035 | 259 | 9 |
| Oldham | 1,437 | 36 | 3 |
| Rochdale | 1,394 | 42 | 3 |
| Salford | 1,242 | 92 | 7 |
| Stockport | 3,448 | 200 | 6 |
| Tameside | 1,221 | 69 | 6 |
| Trafford | 2,763 | 130 | 5 |
| Wigan | 2,256 | 159 | 7 |
| Barnsley | 1,260 | 39 | 3 |
| Doncaster | 1,924 | 101 | 5 |
| Rotherham | 1,667 | 51 | 3 |
| Sheffield | 3,864 | 305 | 8 |
| Bradford | 3,412 | 518 | 15 |
| Calderdale | 1,388 | 78 | 6 |
| Kirklees | 3,201 | 392 | 12 |
| Leeds | 5,198 | 237 | 5 |
| Wakefield | 1,878 | 77 | 4 |
| Gateshead | 1,147 | 38 | 3 |
| Newcastle-Upon-Tyne | 2,132 | 122 | 6 |
| North Tyneside | 1,516 | 79 | 5 |
| South Tyneside | 1,028 | 64 | 6 |
| Sunderland | 1,803 | 126 | 7 |
| Isles of Scilly | 28 | 1 | 4 |
| Avon | 8,377 | 734 | 9 |
| Bedfordshire | 4,170 | 339 | 8 |
| Berkshire | 7,127 | 214 | 3 |
| Buckinghamshire | 6,865 | 235 | 3 |
| Cambridgeshire | 5,263 | 189 | 4 |
and what percentage they formed of all undergraduates in receipt of awards in the last year for which figures are available.
[holding answer 30 March 1990]: The information requested is as follows:
Mandatory and HE discretionary award-holders 1
| HE discretionary award-holders 1
| Percentage in receipt of an HE discretionary award
| |
| Cheshire | 10,186 | 414 | 4 |
| Cleveland | 4,458 | 249 | 6 |
| Cornwall | 3,547 | 151 | 4 |
| Cumbria | 3,567 | 97 | 3 |
| Derbyshire | 6,410 | 209 | 3 |
| Devon | 7,917 | 505 | 6 |
| Dorset | 4,745 | 289 | 6 |
| Durham | 3,916 | 175 | 4 |
| East Sussex | 5,302 | 196 | 4 |
| Essex | 10,374 | 500 | 5 |
| Gloucestershire | 4,921 | 304 | 6 |
| Hampshire | 13,970 | 1,909 | 14 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 5,501 | 413 | 8 |
| Hertfordshire | 10,352 | 589 | 6 |
| Humberside | 6,125 | 502 | 8 |
| Isle of Wight | 856 | 49 | 6 |
| Kent | 12,102 | 793 | 7 |
| Lancashire | 13,528 | 1,098 | 8 |
| Leicestershire | 7,411 | 312 | 4 |
| Lincolnshire | 4,298 | 52 | 1 |
| Norfolk | 4,628 | 539 | 12 |
| North Yorkshire | 7,616 | 328 | 4 |
| Northamptonshire | 3,582 | 218 | 6 |
| Nothumberland | 2,543 | 153 | 6 |
| Nottinghamshire | 6,723 | 476 | 7 |
| Oxfordshire | 5,517 | 226 | 4 |
| Shropshire | 3,443 | 146 | 4 |
| Somerset | 3,582 | 165 | 5 |
| Staffordshire | 8,065 | 622 | 8 |
| Suffolk | 4,064 | 215 | 5 |
| Surrey | 12,356 | 562 | 5 |
| Warwickshire | 6,894 | 158 | 2 |
| West Sussex | 5,808 | 247 | 4 |
| Wiltshire | 4,273 | 254 | 6 |
| Clwyd | 3,508 | 102 | 3 |
| Dyfed | 3,756 | 510 | 14 |
| Gwent | 3,819 | 268 | 7 |
| Gwynedd | 2,782 | 25 | 1 |
| Mid-Glamorgan | 3,438 | 4 | 0 |
| Powys | 1,040 | 52 | 5 |
| South Glamorgan | 4,357 | 400 | 9 |
| West Glamorgan | 3,529 | 310 | 9 |
| England and Wales | 423,135 | 29,253 | 7 |
1 Excludes award-holders on postgraduate courses. | |||