Higher Education: Student Numbers 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. 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |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.