To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many and what percentage of students from (a) Asian Bangladeshi, (b) Asian Chinese, (c) Asian Indian, (d) Asian Pakistani, (e) other Asian, (f) Black African, (g) Black Caribbean, (h) Other Black, (i) White and (j) other ethnic backgrounds received (i) a first class, (ii) an upper second, (iii) a lower second, (iv) a third class, (v) another pass and (vi) a fail in undergraduate honours degrees in each year since 1997. (148118)

The available information on students obtaining first degree qualifications is given in two tables which have been placed in the Libraries.

A new ethnicity classification was introduced on the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) student record in 2001/02 which allowed those students of mixed ethnicity to be classified in more detail. Additionally for the earlier figures, students qualifying from dormant modes of study are excluded, whereas such students are included in the population count for 2001/02 onwards. As such, figures for 2000/01 and earlier are not strictly comparable with those for 2001/02 onwards.

Information for 2006/07 will be available in January 2008.