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Higher Education: Student Numbers

Volume 457: debated on Wednesday 7 March 2007

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Dr. Kumar

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many university applications there were in each of the past seven years by people living in (a) England, (b) the North East region and (c) Middlesbrough, South and East Cleveland constituency. (124224)

Bill Rammell

The available information is taken from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and is given in the table. UCAS do not produce statistics on applicants by parliamentary constituency.

English applicants through UCAS to full time higher education courses

Year of entry

English domiciles

Of which: From the North East

2000

321,343

14,561

2001

330,856

15,101

2002

331,602

15,146

2003

337,593

15,841

2004

339,967

15,571

2005

368,801

16,360

2006

358,067

16,127

Source:

UCAS annual datasets

Latest figures for entry in 2007, show that there were 291,075 applicants from England as at 15 January 2007. This represented a rise of 7.1 per cent. over the same point in the 2006 entry cycle. Of these English applicants, 12,003 were from the North East.