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Written Answers to Questions

Friday 29 February 2008

Innovation, Universities and Skills

Open University: Admissions

Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills (1) how many students are registered with the Open University, broken down by constituency; [179959]

(2) when he expects to reply to question 179959, tabled on 14 January. [187182]

Bill Rammell [holding answer 17 January 2008]: The latest available information is given in the following table. Figures for 2007-08 will be available in January 2009.

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Number of students enrolled at the Open University, by parliamentary constituency, in the UK
Parliamentary constituency	OU students
Aldershot	440
Aldridge-Brownhills	165
Altrincham and Sale West	245
Amber Valley	220
Arundel and South Downs	325
Ashfield	210
Ashford	365
Ashton under Lyne	185
Aylesbury	505
Banbury	460
Barking	175
Barnsley Central	150
Barnsley East and Mexborough	130
Barnsley West and Penistone	180
Barrow and Furness	260
Basildon	255
Basingstoke	400
Bassetlaw	245
Bath	370
Batley and Spen	185
Battersea	300
Beaconsfield	270
Beckenham	400
Bedford	345
Berwick-upon-Tweed	255
Bethnal Green and Bow	315
Beverley and Holderness	235
Bexhill and Battle	255
Bexleyheath and Crayford	205
Billericay	275
Birkenhead	175
Birmingham, Edgbaston	280
Birmingham, Erdington	220
Birmingham, Hall Green	175
Birmingham, Hodge Hill	115
Birmingham, Ladywood	260
Birmingham, Northfield	210
Birmingham, Perry Barr	185
Birmingham, Selly Oak	355
Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath	235
Birmingham, Yardley	140
Bishop Auckland	160
Blaby	275
Blackburn	175
Blackpool North and Fleetwood	170
Blackpool South	165
Blaydon	155
Blyth Valley	180
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton	205
Bolsover	205
Bolton North East	160
Bolton South East	145
Bolton West	215
Bootle	115
Boston and Skegness	245
Bosworth	265
Bournemouth East	290
Bournemouth West	315
Bracknell	430
Bradford North	165
Bradford South	190
Bradford West	175
Braintree	390
Brent East	270
Brent North	215
Brent South	225
Brentford and Isleworth	400
Brentwood and Ongar	270
Bridgwater	285
Brigg and Goole	180
Brighton, Kemptown	270
Brighton, Pavilion	460
Bristol East	290
Bristol North West	325
Bristol South	285
Bristol West	535
Bromley and Chislehurst	315
Bromsgrove	195
Broxbourne	230
Broxtowe	280
Buckingham	445
Burnley	125
Burton	290
Bury North	185
Bury South	195
Bury St. Edmunds	340
Calder Valley	305
Camberwell and Peckham	280
Cambridge	535
Cannock Chase	215
Canterbury	350
Carlisle	150
Carshalton and Wallington	295
Castle Point	215
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich	335
Charnwood	260
Chatham and Aylesford	250
Cheadle	215
Cheltenham	335
Chesham and Amersham	350
Chesterfield	265
Chichester	305
Chingford and Woodford Green	255
Chipping Barnet	285
Chorley	255
Christchurch	280
Cities of London and Westminster	635
City of Chester	275
City of Durham	320
City of York	385
Cleethorpes	185
Colchester	450
Colne Valley	250
Congleton	230
Copeland	215
Corby	300
Cotswold	280
Coventry North East	185
Coventry North West	240
Coventry South	210
Crawley	345
Crewe and Nantwich	205
Crosby	190
Croydon Central	375
Croydon North	425
Croydon South	370
Dagenham	175
Darlington	235
Dartford	275
Daventry	515
Denton and Reddish	200
Derby North	265
Derby South	300
Devizes	465
Dewsbury	150
Doncaster Central	205
Doncaster North	150
Don Valley	235
Dover	295
Dudley North	155
Dudley South	145
Dulwich and West Norwood	460
Ealing, Acton and Shepherds Bush	365
Ealing North	355
Ealing, Southall	325
Easington	105
East Devon	285
East Ham	215
East Hampshire	380
East Surrey	375
East Worthing and Shoreham	275
East Yorkshire	250
Eastbourne	370
Eastleigh	285
Eccles	190
Eddisbury	255
Edmonton	225
Ellesmere Port and Neston	190
Elmet	190
Eltham	230
Enfield North	245
Enfield, Southgate	260
Epping Forest	285
Epsom and Ewell	290
Erewash	255
Erith and Thamesmead	315
Esher and Walton	315
Exeter	465
Falmouth and Camborne	275
Fareham	350
Faversham and Mid Kent	300
Feltham and Heston	215
Finchley and Golders Green	440
Folkestone and Hythe	330
Forest of Dean	220
Fylde	240
Gainsborough	310
Gateshead East and Washington West	160
Gedling	275
Gillingham	335
Gloucester	300
Gosport	355
Grantham and Stamford	390
Gravesham	265
Great Grimsby	155
Great Yarmouth	315
Greenwich and Woolwich	370
Guildford	380
Hackney North and Stoke Newington	345
Hackney South and Shoreditch	315
Halesowen and Rowley Regis	175
Halifax	205
Haltemprice and Howden	225
Halton	170
Hammersmith and Fulham	385
Hampstead and Highgate	355
Harborough	290
Harlow	295
Harrogate and Knaresborough	315
Harrow East	280
Harrow West	295
Hartlepool	150
Harwich	290
Hastings and Rye	370
Havant	215
Hayes and Harlington	165
Hazel Grove	200
Hemel Hempstead	315
Hemsworth	210
Hendon	355
Henley	335
Hereford	335
Hertford and Stortford	390
Hertsmere	255
Hexham	220
Heywood and Middleton	200
High Peak	295
Hitchin and Harpenden	385
Holborn and St. Pancras	335
Hornchurch	160
Hornsey and Wood Green	500
Horsham	415
Houghton and Washington East	120
Hove	375
Huddersfield	165
Huntingdon	545
Hyndburn	155
Ilford North	220
Ilford South	245
Ipswich	305
Isle of Wight	630
Islington North	325
Islington South and Finsbury	305
Jarrow	135
Keighley	230
Kensington and Chelsea	280
Kettering	385
Kingston and Surbiton	340
Kingston upon Hull East	105
Kingston upon Hull North	175
Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle	130
Kingswood	305
Knowsley North and Sefton East	100
Knowsley South	115
Lancaster and Wyre	275
Leeds Central	210
Leeds East	100
Leeds North East	245
Leeds North West	230
Leeds West	210
Leicester East	150
Leicester South	250
Leicester West	250
Leigh	155
Leominster	270
Lewes	330
Lewisham, Deptford	340
Lewisham East	285
Lewisham West	345
Leyton and Wanstead	340
Lichfield	225
Lincoln	375
Liverpool, Garston	125
Liverpool, Riverside	185
Liverpool, Walton	105
Liverpool, Wavertree	145
Liverpool, West Derby	110
Loughborough	265
Louth and Horncastle	310
Ludlow	240
Luton North	200
Luton South	260
Macclesfield	265
Maidenhead	335
Maidstone and The Weald	390
Makerfield	135
Maldon and East Chelmsford	290
Manchester, Blackley	195
Manchester, Central	290
Manchester, Gorton	235
Manchester, Withington	305
Mansfield	255
Medway	300
Meriden	215
Mid Bedfordshire	420
Mid Dorset and North Poole	295
Mid Norfolk	345
Mid Sussex	395
Mid Worcestershire	270
Middlesbrough	115
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	190
Milton Keynes South West	895
Mitcham and Morden	260
Mole Valley	325
Morecambe and Lunesdale	200
Morley and Rothwell	210
New Forest East	250
New Forest West	225
Newark	260
Newbury	415
Newcastle upon Tyne Central	215
Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend	155
Newcastle upon Tyne North	180
Newcastle-under-Lyme	185
Normanton	210
North Cornwall	405
North Devon	380
North Dorset	400
North Durham	160
North East Bedfordshire	340
North East Cambridgeshire	385
North East Derbyshire	200
North East Hampshire	420
North East Hertfordshire	355
North East Milton Keynes	1,025
North Essex	295
North Norfolk	375
North Shropshire	260
North Southwark and Bermondsey	370
North Swindon	300
North Thanet	255
North Tyneside	205
North Warwickshire	180
North West Cambridgeshire	485
North West Durham	205
North West Hampshire	430
North West Leicestershire	235
North West Norfolk	320
North Wiltshire	475
Northampton North	275
Northampton South	505
Northavon	325
Norwich North	355
Norwich South	390
Nottingham East	310
Nottingham North	205
Nottingham South	260
Nuneaton	220
Old Bexley and Sidcup	230
Oldham East and Saddleworth	205
Oldham West and Royton	155
Orpington	310
Oxford East	410
Oxford West and Abingdon	470
Pendle	155
Penrith and The Border	235
Peterborough	365
Plymouth, Devonport	275
Plymouth, Sutton	325
Pontefract and Castleford	155
Poole	285
Poplar and Canning Town	340
Portsmouth North	265
Portsmouth South	385
Preston	170
Pudsey	250
Putney	325
Rayleigh	270
Reading East	435
Reading West	350
Redcar	160
Redditch	245
Regents Park and Kensington North	350
Reigate	345
Ribble Valley	185
Richmond Yorks	285
Richmond Park	395
Rochdale	190
Rochford and Southend East	345
Romford	210
Romsey	275
Rossendale and Darwen	205
Rother Valley	175
Rotherham	125
Rugby and Kenilworth	325
Ruislip-Northwood	235
Runnymede and Weybridge	290
Rushcliffe	385
Rutland and Melton	320
Ryedale	240
Saffron Walden	430
St. Albans	370
St. Helens North	165
St. Helens South	150
St. Ives	370
Salford	165
Salisbury	565
Scarborough and Whitby	270
Scunthorpe	150
Sedgefield	155
Selby	275
Sevenoaks	285
Sheffield, Attercliffe	140
Sheffield, Brightside	100
Sheffield Central	210
Sheffield, Hallam	200
Sheffield, Heeley	155
Sheffield, Hillsborough	210
Sherwood	285
Shipley	270
Shrewsbury and Atcham	340
Sittingbourne and Sheppey	320
Skipton and Ripon	265
Sleaford and North Hykeham	510
Slough	295
Solihull	270
Somerton and Frome	320
South Cambridgeshire	495
South Derbyshire	275
South Dorset	380
South East Cambridgeshire	545
South East Cornwall	340
South Holland and The Deepings	305
South Norfolk	380
South Ribble	160
South Shields	125
South Staffordshire	180
South Suffolk	310
South Swindon	370
South Thanet	260
South West Bedfordshire	385
South West Devon	310
South West Hertfordshire	420
South West Norfolk	480
South West Surrey	345
Southampton, Itchen	275
Southampton, Test	315
Southend West	340
Southport	245
Spelthorne	265
Stafford	300
Staffordshire Moorlands	165
Stalybridge and Hyde	205
Stevenage	335
Stockport	255
Stockton North	155
Stockton South	250
Stoke-on-Trent Central	155
Stoke-on-Trent North	150
Stoke-on-Trent South	185
Stone	220
Stourbridge	210
Stratford-on-Avon	360
Streatham	405
Stretford and Urmston	280
Stroud	330
Suffolk Coastal	380
Sunderland North	90
Sunderland South	85
Surrey Heath	365
Sutton and Cheam	250
Sutton Coldfield	295
Tamworth	230
Tatton	230
Taunton	340
Teignbridge	410
Telford	210
Tewkesbury	275
The Wrekin	310
Thurrock	320
Tiverton and Honiton	365
Tonbridge and Malling	305
Tooting	420
Torbay	380
Torridge and West Devon	450
Totnes	315
Tottenham	365
Truro and St. Austell	310
Tunbridge Wells	330
Twickenham	450
Tyne Bridge	165
Tynemouth	300
Upminster	170
Uxbridge	265
Vale of York	335
Vauxhall	370
Wakefield	240
Wallasey	205
Walsall North	150
Walsall South	145
Walthamstow	345
Wansbeck	185
Wansdyke	255
Wantage	465
Warley	180
Warrington North	225
Warrington South	265
Warwick and Leamington	335
Watford	375
Waveney	360
Wealden	380
Weaver Vale	230
Wellingborough	425
Wells	350
Welwyn Hatfield	295
Wentworth	130
West Bromwich East	130
West Bromwich West	125
West Chelmsford	400
West Derbyshire	290
West Dorset	345
West Ham	260
West Lancashire	170
West Suffolk	300
West Worcestershire	245
Westbury	370
Westmorland and Lonsdale	260
Weston-Super-Mare	335
Wigan	140
Wimbledon	350
Winchester	450
Windsor	330
Wirral South	180
Wirral West	235
Witney	415
Woking	395
Wokingham	385
Wolverhampton North East	130
Wolverhampton South East	105
Wolverhampton South West	190
Woodspring	280
Worcester	275
Workington	200
Worsley	185
Worthing West	240
Wycombe	330
Wyre Forest	240
Wythenshawe and Sale East	265
Yeovil	350
Aberavon	120
Alyn and Deeside	175
Blaenau Gwent	90
Brecon and Radnorshire	210
Bridgend	215
Caernarfon	130
Caerphilly	155
Cardiff Central	250
Cardiff North	215
Cardiff South and Penarth	240
Cardiff West	225
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	145
Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire	160
Ceredigion	200
Clwyd South	175
Clwyd West	165
Conwy	165
Cynon Valley	85
Delyn	165
Gower	145
Islwyn	120
Llanelli	135
Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	100
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney	100
Monmouth	265
Montgomeryshire	185
Neath	150
Newport East	150
Newport West	165
Ogmore	135
Pontypridd	170
Preseli Pembrokeshire	195
Rhondda	70
Swansea East	140
Swansea West	150
Torfaen	155
Vale of Clwyd	140
Vale of Glamorgan	265
Wrexham	125
Ynys Mon	165
Aberdeen Central	270
Aberdeen North	185
Aberdeen South	235
Airdrie and Shotts	145
Angus	210
Argyll and Bute	255
Ayr	155
Banff and Buchan	225
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	245
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley	165
Central Fife	135
Clydebank and Milngavie	140
Clydesdale	205
Coatbridge and Chryston	135
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	150
Cunninghame North	200
Cunninghame South	105
Dumbarton	240
Dumfries	195
Dundee East	155
Dundee West	145
Dunfermline East	160
Dunfermline West	230
East Kilbride	225
East Lothian	220
Eastwood	185
Edinburgh Central	390
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh	280
Edinburgh North and Leith	430
Edinburgh Pentlands	235
Edinburgh South	310
Edinburgh West	245
Falkirk East	175
Falkirk West	195
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale	195
Glasgow Anniesland	125
Glasgow Baillieston	75
Glasgow Cathcart	160
Glasgow Govan	185
Glasgow Kelvin	245
Glasgow Maryhill	130
Glasgow Pollok	95
Glasgow Rutherglen	120
Glasgow Shettleston	105
Glasgow Springburn	120
Gordon	280
Greenock and Inverclyde	130
Hamilton North and Bellshill	120
Hamilton South	105
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber	350
Kilmarnock and Loudoun	155
Kirkcaldy	145
Linlithgow	220
Livingston	265
Midlothian	150
Moray	360
Motherwell and Wishaw	125
North East Fife	250
North Tayside	215
Ochil	185
Orkney and Shetland	260
Paisley North	115
Paisley South	95
Perth	290
Ross, Skye and Inverness West	315
Roxburgh and Berwickshire	180
Stirling	185
Strathkelvin and Bearsden	205
Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale	250
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	320
West Renfrewshire	150
Western Isles	125
Belfast East	205
Belfast North	155
Belfast South	300
Belfast West	130
East Antrim	205
East Londonderry	200
Fermanagh and South Tyrone	185
Foyle	255
Lagan Valley	265
Mid Ulster	110
Newry and Armagh	165
North Antrim	230
North Down	225
South Antrim	240
South Down	190
Strangford	230
Upper Bann	245
West Tyrone	150
Guernsey	640
Isle of Man	320
Total UK	173,115
Notes: 1. Figures are based on a HESA Standard Registration Population and have been rounded to the nearest five, so components may not sum to the total. 2. These figures exclude 3,445 students whose parliamentary constituency was not known. This includes a small number of overseas students. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)

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