Student Maintenance Grant
Chris Grayling:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimates she has made of the cost of reintroducing a student maintenance grant; and at what levels. [12744]
Margaret Hodge:
We will consider the costs of making changes to the current system of student support as part of the review my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced in October.
Higher Education
Helen Jones:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of pupils entered higher education at 18 (a) in authorities which retain grammar schools and (b) in authorities which are fully comprehensive, at the latest date for which figures are available. [11630]
Margaret Hodge
[holding answer 5 November 2001]: The latest available data on the proportion of 18-year-olds from each local education authority in England entering full-time undergraduate courses in the UK via the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) are given in the table. The student figures in the table are
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based on the home domicile of 18-year-olds, but it should be noted that pupils will not always attend a school or college in the same authority as the one in which they live.
English domiciled students aged 18 accepted to full-time undergraduate courses in the UK via UCAS, autumn 2000 entry
Local education authority | Population | Acceptances | Percentage
|
Barking and Dagenham | 1,963 | 198 | 10.1
|
Barnet(19) | 4,060 | 1,196 | 29.5
|
Barnsley | 2,681 | 412 | 15.4
|
Bath and North East Somerset | 2,061 | 405 | 19.7
|
Bedfordshire | 4,714 | 1,131 | 24.0
|
Bexley(19) | 2,620 | 472 | 18.0
|
Birmingham(19) | 13,888 | 2,255 | 16.2
|
Blackburn with Darwen | 1,959 | 384 | 19.6
|
Blackpool | 1,574 | 263 | 16.7
|
Bolton | 3,457 | 750 | 21.7
|
Bournemouth(19) | 1,710 | 358 | 20.9
|
Bracknell Forest | 1,315 | 272 | 20.7
|
Bradford | 6,812 | 1,147 | 16.8
|
Brent | 3,255 | 924 | 28.4
|
Brighton and Hove | 2,686 | 341 | 12.7
|
Bromley(19) | 3,189 | 929 | 29.1
|
Buckinghamshire(19) | 6,089 | 1,760 | 28.9
|
Bury | 2,306 | 578 | 25.1
|
Calderdale(19) | 2,302 | 442 | 19.2
|
Cambridgeshire | 7,148 | 1,397 | 19.5
|
Camden | 2,150 | 364 | 16.9
|
Cheshire | 7,963 | 2,432 | 30.5
|
City of Bristol | 4,843 | 664 | 13.7
|
City of Derby | 2,903 | 498 | 17.2
|
City of Kingston upon Hull | 3,264 | 288 | 8.8
|
City of London | 41 | 22 | 53.8
|
City of Westminster | 2,347 | 295 | 12.6
|
Cornwall | 5,854 | 1,298 | 22.2
|
Coventry | 4,182 | 715 | 17.1
|
Croydon | 4,065 | 1,013 | 24.9
|
Cumbria(19) | 5,565 | 1,213 | 21.8
|
Darlington | 1,257 | 243 | 19.3
|
Derbyshire | 8,376 | 1,744 | 20.8
|
Devon(19) | 8,347 | 1,676 | 20.1
|
Doncaster | 3,761 | 585 | 15.6
|
Dorset | 4,544 | 956 | 21.0
|
Dudley | 3,587 | 744 | 20.7
|
Durham | 6,568 | 1,106 | 16.8
|
Ealing | 3,637 | 951 | 26.1
|
East Riding of Yorkshire | 3,911 | 880 | 22.5
|
East Sussex | 5,492 | 1,156 | 21.0
|
Enfield(19) | 3,014 | 802 | 26.6
|
Essex(19) | 15,281 | 3,241 | 21.2
|
Gateshead | 2,496 | 423 | 16.9
|
Gloucestershire(19) | 6,876 | 1,724 | 25.1
|
Greenwich | 2,800 | 344 | 12.3
|
Hackney | 2,447 | 285 | 11.6
|
Halton | 1,733 | 238 | 13.7
|
Hammersmith and Fulham | 1,520 | 251 | 16.5
|
Hampshire | 15,553 | 3,442 | 22.1
|
Haringey | 2,432 | 452 | 18.6
|
Harrow | 2,750 | 963 | 53.0
|
Hartlepool | 1,201 | 188 | 15.7
|
Havering | 2,775 | 478 | 17.2
|
Herefordshire | 1,982 | 503 | 25.4
|
Hertfordshire | 11,947 | 3,250 | 27.2
|
Hillingdon | 3,026 | 637 | 21.0
|
Hounslow | 2,537 | 644 | 25.4
|
Isle of Wight | 1,428 | 295 | 20.7
|
Isles of Scilly | 28 | 4 | 14.3
|
Islington | 1,917 | 298 | 15.5
|
Kensington and Chelsea | 1,821 | 305 | 16.7
|
Kent(19) | 15,954 | 3,575 | 22.4
|
Kingston upon Thames(19) | 1,629 | 441 | 27.1
|
Kirklees(19) | 4,952 | 1,025 | 20.7
|
Knowsley | 2,213 | 266 | 12.0
|
Lambeth | 2,840 | 412 | 14.5
|
Lancashire(19) | 14,565 | 3,303 | 22.7
|
Leeds | 8,831 | 1,567 | 17.7
|
Leicester City | 3,870 | 689 | 17.8
|
Leicestershire | 7,583 | 1,710 | 22.6
|
Lewisham | 2,800 | 446 | 15.9
|
Lincolnshire(19) | 7,498 | 1,602 | 21.4
|
Liverpool | 6,197 | 953 | 15,4
|
Luton | 2,430 | 395 | 16.3
|
Manchester | 6,327 | 693 | 11.0
|
Medway Towns(19) | 3,125 | 543 | 17.4
|
Merton | 1,944 | 439 | 22.6
|
Middlesbrough | 2,056 | 340 | 16.5
|
Milton Keynes | 2,855 | 497 | 17.4
|
Newbury | 1,964 | 439 | 22.3
|
Newcastle upon Tyne | 3,517 | 609 | 17.3
|
Newham | 3,361 | 599 | 17.8
|
Norfolk | 9,094 | 1,538 | 16.9
|
North East Lincolnshire | 2,022 | 311 | 15.4
|
North Lincolnshire | 1,896 | 397 | 20.9
|
North Somerset | 2,242 | 492 | 21.9
|
North Tyneside | 2,399 | 474 | 19.8
|
North Yorkshire(19) | 7,295 | 1,826 | 25.0
|
Northamptonshire | 7,768 | 1,524 | 19.6
|
Northumberland | 3,814 | 946 | 24.8
|
Nottingham City | 3,828 | 352 | 9.2
|
Nottinghamshire | 8,861 | 1,813 | 20.5
|
Oldham | 2,912 | 502 | 17.2
|
Oxfordshire | 7,868 | 1,662 | 21.1
|
Peterborough | 2,157 | 322 | 14.9
|
Plymouth(19) | 3,556 | 513 | 14.4
|
Poole(19) | 1,630 | 313 | 19.2
|
Portsmouth | 2,306 | 269 | 11.7
|
Reading(19) | 1,701 | 293 | 17.2
|
Redbridge(19) | 2,884 | 895 | 31.0
|
Redcar and Cleveland | 1,852 | 302 | 16.3
|
Richmond upon Thames | 1,899 | 541 | 28.5
|
Rochdale | 2,863 | 482 | 16.8
|
Rotherham | 3,175 | 484 | 15.2
|
Rutland | 690 | 113 | 16.4
|
Salford | 2,781 | 353 | 12.7
|
Sandwell | 3,686 | 474 | 12.9
|
Sefton | 3,567 | 916 | 25.7
|
Sheffield | 6,171 | 951 | 15.4
|
Shropshire | 3,641 | 867 | 23.8
|
Slough(19) | 1,394 | 304 | 21.8
|
Solihull | 2,428 | 704 | 29.0
|
Somerset | 5,949 | 1,264 | 21.2
|
South Gloucestershire | 2,691 | 565 | 21.0
|
South Tyneside | 1,950 | 330 | 16.9
|
Southampton | 2,749 | 319 | 11.6
|
Southend(19) | 1,990 | 346 | 17.4
|
Southwark | 2,588 | 333 | 12.9
|
St. Helens | 2,263 | 496 | 21.9
|
Staffordshire | 9,818 | 2,256 | 23.0
|
Stockport | 3,483 | 902 | 25.9
|
Stockton-on-Tees | 2,481 | 550 | 22.2
|
Stoke on Trent(19) | 3,101 | 382 | 12.3
|
Suffolk | 7,816 | 1,657 | 21.2
|
Sunderland | 3,812 | 572 | 15.0
|
Surrey | 12,760 | 3,429 | 26.9
|
Sutton(19) | 1,953 | 524 | 26.8
|
Swindon | 2,157 | 376 | 17.4
|
Tameside | 2,791 | 440 | 15.8
|
Telford and the Wrekin(19) | 1,970 | 354 | 18.0
|
Thurrock | 1,597 | 168 | 10.5
|
Torbay(19) | 1,452 | 264 | 18.2
|
Tower Hamlets | 2,565 | 341 | 13.3
|
Trafford(19) | 2,710 | 699 | 25.8
|
Wakefield | 3,863 | 610 | 15.8
|
Walsall(19) | 3,227 | 560 | 17.4
|
Waltham Forest | 2,549 | 514 | 20.2
|
Wandsworth | 2,216 | 461 | 20.8
|
Warrington | 2,252 | 506 | 22.5
|
Warwickshire(19) | 5,937 | 1,360 | 22.9
|
West Sussex | 8,422 | 1,808 | 21.5
|
Wigan | 3,864 | 673 | 17.4
|
Wiltshire(19) | 5,240 | 1,194 | 22.8
|
Windsor and Maidenhead | 1,775 | 454 | 25.6
|
Wirral(19) | 4,210 | 1,043 | 24.8
|
Wokingham | 1,837 | 588 | 32.0
|
Wolverhampton | 3,193 | 625 | 19.6
|
Worcestershire | 6,283 | 1,487 | 23.7
|
York | 2,280 | 468 | 20.5
|
Not known | | 90 |
|
|
Total | 606,687 | 123,708 | 20.4
|
(19) Authorities with grammar schools
Note:
Population figures are based on estimates as at 1 January 2001, with age as at 31 August 2000. Acceptance figures based on age at 30 September 2000.
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Chris Grayling:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students are in full-time studies in universities in England and Wales. [12745]
Margaret Hodge:
The available data are given in the table.
Full-time higher education students in England and Wales(20), 200001
| Number
|
Postgraduate | 143,623
|
Undergraduate | 933,265
|
|
Total | 1,076,888
|
(20) Home and overseas students in HE and FE institutions, and the Open University
Consultation Documents
Sandra Gidley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many consultation documents were issued by her Department and its predecessors from (a) 15 October to 14 January, (b) 15 January to 14 April, (c) 15 April to 14 July and (d) 15 July to 14 October in each year from 1996. [12897]
Mr. Ivan Lewis:
The answer is as follows.
| Number of consultation documents
|
1996 |
|
15 January to 14 April | 4
|
15 April to 14 July | 7
|
15 July to 14 October | 6
|
|
|
199697 |
|
15 October to 14 January | 5
|
15 January to 14 April | 14
|
15 April to 14 July | 19
|
15 July to 14 October | 27
|
|
|
199798 |
|
15 October to 14 January | 21
|
15 January to 14 April | 40
|
15 April to 14 July | 46
|
15 July to 14 October | 36
|
|
|
199899 |
|
15 October to 14 January | 38
|
15 January to 14 April | 51
|
15 April to 14 July | 49
|
15 July to 14 October | 49
|
|
|
19992000 |
|
15 October to 14 January | 42
|
15 January to 14 April | 13
|
15 April to 14 July | 23
|
15 July to 14 October | 14
|
200001 |
|
15 October to 14 January | 22
|
15 January to 14 April | 25
|
15 April to 14 July | 18
|
15 July to 14 October | 17
|
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