Higher Education: Great Yarmouth

Mr. Anthony Wright

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many students in Great Yarmouth went on to higher education in each of the last 10 years. (151963)

The latest available information is shown in the table. Figures for 2006/07 will be available in January 2008.

*Entrants*^{1, 2} *to undergraduate courses from Great Yarmouth parliamentary constituency, UK Higher Education Institutions*³*, academic years 1996/97 to 2005/06*
Academic year	Number
1996/97	340
1997/98	340
1998/99	390
1999/2000	405
2000/01	415
2001/02	550
2002/03	445
2003/04	530
2004/05	515
2005/06	555
¹ Covers students on full-time and part-time modes of study. ² Position at 1 December each year. ³ Excludes The Open University. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), all figures are rounded to the nearest five.

The figures are based on students enrolled at 1 December in each year because these are the only figures available on a comparable basis in each year since 1997.

Volume 463: debated on Monday 3 September 2007