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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⁾, 2000–01

	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
1996–97
15 October to 14 January	5
15 January to 14 April	14
15 April to 14 July	19
15 July to 14 October	27
1997–98
15 October to 14 January	21
15 January to 14 April	40
15 April to 14 July	46
15 July to 14 October	36
1998–99
15 October to 14 January	38
15 January to 14 April	51
15 April to 14 July	49
15 July to 14 October	49
1999–2000
15 October to 14 January	42
15 January to 14 April	13
15 April to 14 July	23
15 July to 14 October	14
2000–01
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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