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date	08/09/2014
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 steps he is taking to widen access to higher education.
tabling member constituency	Hereford and South Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Jesse Norman
uin	905330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>In April this Government published a new national strategy for access and student success. It will help to ensure that all those with the potential to benefit from higher education have equal opportunity to participate and succeed. Data from UCAS shows the number of applicants who had been accepted for entry to higher education this year was up by 4%, the highest ever at that point. The application and entry rate for disadvantaged students are at record levels.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 11/09/2014 15:36:49 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman

90408

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
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 assessment he has made of the recent trends in the number of university applications from students from disadvantaged or minority ethnic backgrounds.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	207993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2014 answer text <p>The latest figures published by UCAS for the 2014 application cycle show that, as at the main UCAS deadline of 15 January, the application rate for young people from the most disadvantaged areas in England had risen to the highest ever level (20.7%). The detailed figures can be found at <a href="http://www.ucas.com/news-events/news/2014/2014-cycle-applicant-figures-january-deadline-2014" target="_blank">http://www.ucas.com/news-events/news/2014/2014-cycle-applicant-figures-january-deadline-2014</a></p><p>The latest data on ethnic background show that application rates for all ethnic groups rose in 2014, reaching new highs for most groups. The figures can be found at <a href="http://www.ucas.com/data-analysis/analysis-notes" target="_blank">http://www.ucas.com/data-analysis/analysis-notes</a></p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 09/09/2014 15:38:32 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

76316

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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 young people who had been in receipt of free school meals applied to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	204496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The information for Oxbridge is not held centrally.</p><p>Figures published by UCAS in July 2013 show that, in 2010, the application rate of 18 year olds in state schools in England who had received free school meals at age 15 was 13.2%, compared to 32.2% for those who had not received them. In 2013, the rates were 14.8% and 32.9% respectively. The application rate measures the percentage of 18 year olds who apply to enter full-time undergraduate courses in the UK. UCAS is an organisation independent from Government.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 15/07/2014 11:32:57 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith