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179400

registered interest
date	09/02/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Higher Education: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to widen access to higher education.
tabling member constituency	Hereford and South Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Jesse Norman
uin	907614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p><strong>The most recent UCAS statistics show another record year for university entry for disadvantaged students. 18.2% of 18 year olds from disadvantaged backgrounds obtained a university place via UCAS in 2014. </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>By 2018/19, Universities expect to spend £735m on bursaries, outreach and supporting retention and student success through their agreements with the Director of Fair Access. </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Our reforms have been fair, progressive and given our universities sustainable funding for the future.</strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Twickenham answering member printed Vince Cable question first answered 12/02/2015 14:50:27 answering member 207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable
tabling member	3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman

173794

registered interest
date	14/01/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Higher Education: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of successful applications to UK universities were made by British people from BME communities in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	220852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>The latest available figures are shown in the table. The figures for 2014 entry will be published by UCAS on January 21<sup>st</sup>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Accepted applicants from the UK to full-time undergraduate courses in the UK, by ethnic group</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="8"><p><strong>Year of entry</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Numbers</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>Numbers</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>Numbers</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>Numbers</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>424,634</p></td><td><p>100.0</p></td><td><p>431,235</p></td><td><p>100.0</p></td><td><p>407,391</p></td><td><p>100.0</p></td><td><p>434,690</p></td><td><p>100.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>of which:</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>331,491</p></td><td><p>78.1</p></td><td><p>333,198</p></td><td><p>77.3</p></td><td><p>308,545</p></td><td><p>75.7</p></td><td><p>328,625</p></td><td><p>75.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>27,162</p></td><td><p>6.4</p></td><td><p>29,688</p></td><td><p>6.9</p></td><td><p>30,794</p></td><td><p>7.6</p></td><td><p>32,485</p></td><td><p>7.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>40,737</p></td><td><p>9.6</p></td><td><p>43,211</p></td><td><p>10.0</p></td><td><p>42,561</p></td><td><p>10.4</p></td><td><p>45,665</p></td><td><p>10.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mixed</p></td><td><p>14,185</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>15,494</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>14,821</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>16,255</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>4,419</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td><td><p>4,709</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td><td><p>5,901</p></td><td><p>1.4</p></td><td><p>6,195</p></td><td><p>1.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>6,640</p></td><td><p>1.6</p></td><td><p>4,935</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td><td><p>4,769</p></td><td><p>1.2</p></td><td><p>5,460</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: UCAS</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 19/01/2015 15:13:23 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

173150

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Higher Education: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the reduction in the student opportunity allocation on the ability of financially-disadvantaged students to access higher education.
tabling member constituency	Castle Point
tabling member printed	Rebecca Harris
uin	220479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>In the annual grant letters to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Government has made it clear that widening participation is a priority. Overall investment in widening participation through the Student Opportunity Fund and other sources increased from £977m in 2012-13 to £1,129m in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information from UCAS for the 2014 application cycle shows that the entry rate for the most disadvantaged has risen by 10% proportionately to 18.2%, the highest ever, making disadvantaged young people in England a third more likely to enter university in 2014 than five years ago.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 19/01/2015 11:49:10 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	3948 label Biography information for Rebecca Harris

172472

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Higher Education: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time (i) UK and (ii) other EU students started undergraduate higher education courses in England in (A) 2013-14 and (B) 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
uin	220139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>Statistics on the number of students starting higher education courses in academic year 2013/14 are published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The data can be secured at the following link. <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency will publish data on Higher Education entrants and enrolments for 2014/15 in January 2016.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 220142 question first answered 13/01/2015 14:12:04 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

172475

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Higher Education: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many additional students entered higher education in 2014-15 as a result of the increase in the cap on student numbers announced in the 2014 Autumn Statement.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
uin	220142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>Statistics on the number of students starting higher education courses in academic year 2013/14 are published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The data can be secured at the following link. <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency will publish data on Higher Education entrants and enrolments for 2014/15 in January 2016.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 220139 question first answered 13/01/2015 14:12:04 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

165884

registered interest
date	25/11/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Higher Education: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many and what proportion of undergraduates studying in universities are of each social grade.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich West
tabling member printed	Mr Adrian Bailey
uin	215818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) publish information annually on the participation in Higher Education by under-represented students groups in their UK Performance Indicators tables. The available figures on participation by National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) can be located in Table 1a at the following link:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/pis/09/10/urg" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/pis/09/10/urg</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HESA figures show that 73,240 (or 32.6%) of young UK domiciled First degree entrants in UK universities came from socio-economic classifications that comprise small employers/account workers, lower supervisory and technical workers and semi routine or routine occupations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 02/12/2014 11:55:32 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 30680 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	320 label Biography information for Mr Adrian Bailey

143352

registered interest
date	07/11/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Higher Education: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the cost to the public purse is of abolishing the cap on student numbers in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16, (c) 2016-17 and (d) 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Mr Liam Byrne
uin	213835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>Details of estimates and costs are in the 2013 Autumn Statement document at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263942/35062_Autumn_Statement_2013.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263942/35062_Autumn_Statement_2013.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 213239 213836 question first answered 18/12/2014 16:58:47 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 28171 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne