To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the proportion of people with higher education qualifications by parliamentary constituency in (a) 1981 and (b) 1991. [39424]

Data from the 1991 Census showing the proportion of people with higher education qualifications in each constituency are published by the Office for National Statistics in the "New Parliamentary Constituency Monitor" series. Copies of these, and the equivalent publications covering the 1981 Census, are available in the Library. These figures are not reproduced here because of the volume of data involved.