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Higher Education: Greater London

Volume 478: debated on Tuesday 8 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many residents of (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) London entered higher education in each of the last 10 years. (216358)

The latest available information is shown in the table. Comparable figures for the 2007/08 academic year will be available in January 2009.

Entrants1 to undergraduate courses from Bexleyheath and Crayford parliamentary constituency and London Government office region, UK higher education institutions, academic years 1997/98 to 2006/07

Academic year

Bexleyheath and Crayford parliamentary constituency

London Government office region2

1997/983

395

57,145

1998/99

455

70,385

1999/2000

490

73,625

2000/01

540

76,980

2001/02

605

81,100

2002/03

625

88,130

2003/04

675

89,465

2004/054

675

93,900

2005/06

725

92,150

2006/07

715

89,450

1 Figures are on a snapshot basis as at 1 December to maintain a consistent time series across all years and are rounded to the nearest five. Figures include the Open university but exclude those on writing up, sabbatical or dormant modes of study.

2 Figures for London Government office region include double counting as entrants from Bexleyheath and Crayford will also be included in the London Government office region figures.

3 Figures for 1997/98 exclude the Open university because there are no figures available for entrants to undergraduate courses at the Open university by local authority for this year.

4 The increase in entrants between 2004/05 and 2005/06 may be greater than in reality as a consequence of a problem identified with data submitted by the Open university (OU) in the 2004/05 academic year.

Source:

Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).