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Higher Education: Sunderland

Volume 458: debated on Tuesday 13 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what percentage of people in (a) Houghton and Washington East constituency and (b) Sunderland city council area received a degree qualification in each year since 1997. (125297)

The latest available data on the number of graduates from Houghton and Washington, East constituency and Sunderland local authority for the academic years 1997/98 to 2005/06 are given in the following table.

Number of first degree graduates 1 from Houghton and Washington, East constituency and Sunderland local authority English institutions—academic years 1997/98 to 2005/06

Academic year

Houghton and Washington, East constituency

Sunderland local authority

1997/98

280

925

1998/99

265

975

1999/2000

255

865

2000/01

250

815

2001/02

240

825

2002/03

255

925

2003/04

285

935

2004/05

285

1,005

2005/06

320

1,060

1 Excludes graduates from dormant modes of study.

Source:

Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

Information on the percentage of people in Houghton and Washington, East constituency and Sunderland local authority who receive a degree qualification is not collated centrally.

However, the percentage of working age adults educated to NVQ level 4 and above can be found from the Annual Population Survey.

This shows that in 2005, the percentage of working age adults from Houghton and Washington, East constituency with NVQ4 and above qualifications is 15.7 per cent., the figure for Sunderland local authority is 16.6 per cent., and the comparable figure for England is 26.2 per cent.