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Land Surveyors

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills (1) what estimate his Department has made of the number of qualified land surveyors in England; [214450]

(2) if he will publish a strategy to address national shortages of qualified land surveyors. [214487]

Mr. Lammy: My Department does not collect or hold data on this subject. Part of the work of ConstructionSkills, the Sector Skills Council for the construction industry, is to assess the labour market needs of the construction sector and, through its sector skills agreement, identify ways in which skills needs and shortages can be met. I have therefore asked its chief executive to write directly to the hon. Gentleman about this issue.

Languages: Higher Education

Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what courses in which 10 foreign languages were studied by the most students in universities in England in the latest period for which figures are available; and how many studied each. [215827]

Bill Rammell: In 2006/07 there were 46,100 enrolments on language courses at English HE institutions. The table shows enrolments in the most popular languages
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at all levels of HE. However, there are a further 9,150 enrolments classified as “other European languages” and 1,810 classified under “other non-European languages”.

	2006/07
French	10,255
Spanish	7,700
German	4,510
Italian	2,900
Russian and Eastern European Studies	1,910
Modern Middle Eastern Studies	1,765
Japanese	1,485
Chinese	1,470
Portuguese	530
Scandinavian Studies	455
Source: HESA

Overseas Students: Israel

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many students from Israel have enrolled at universities in the UK in each year since 1997; and which subjects they have studied. [216350]

Bill Rammell: The latest available information is shown in the tables. Figures for the 2007/08 academic year will be available in January 2009.

A new classification for recording subject of study was introduced in 2002/03 and so figures from 2002/03 onwards are not comparable to earlier years.

Israel domiciled entrants( 1) by subject of study, UK higher education institutions( 2) , academic years 1997/98 to 2001/02
	Academic year
Subject of study	1997/98	1998/99	1999/2000	2000/01	2001/02
Medicine and Dentistry	0	5	10	10	5
Subjects Allied to Medicine	15	20	20	15	10
Biological Sciences	25	20	20	20	15
Physical Sciences	5	5	5	5	0
Computer Science	25	35	25	35	25
Engineering and Technology	75	40	20	25	30
Architecture, Building and Planning	85	55	40	50	35
Social, Economic and Political Studies	30	45	35	40	40
Law	135	170	55	50	40
Business and Administrative Studies	90	90	70	50	60
Librarianship and Information Science	10	15	10	10	10
Languages	40	55	30	40	30
Humanities	15	20	15	10	15
Creative Arts and Design	45	40	35	55	60
Education	185	215	320	355	220
Combined/Invalid Code Supplied	35	55	20	15	15
Total	815	890	735	795	615

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Israel domiciled entrants( 1) by subject of study, UK higher education institutions( 2) , academic years 2002/03 to 2006/07
	Academic year
Subject of study	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07
Medicine and Dentistry	10	5	5	5	5
Subjects Allied to Medicine	15	15	15	20	15
Biological Sciences	25	30	20	10	20
Physical Sciences	5	10	10	5	5
Mathematical Sciences	0	5	5	5	0
Computer Science	30	15	10	25	15
Engineering and Technology	40	35	25	15	20
Architecture, Building and Planning	20	20	5	5	5
Social Studies	30	35	30	40	55
Law	50	25	20	25	25
Business and Administrative Studies	60	70	35	35	40
Mass Communications and Documentation	20	15	10	15	10
Languages	20	20	15	15	20
Historical and Philosophical Studies	20	15	20	10	15
Creative Arts and Design	50	60	55	30	40
Education	80	50	40	25	25
Combined	5	5	5	5	5
Total	480	430	325	285	320
(1) Figures cover full-time and part-time entrants to all levels of study. However, figures exclude those on writing up, sabbatical or dormant modes of study. (2) Figures exclude the Open university due to inconsistencies in their coding of subject data across the time series. Note: 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. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) student record.

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