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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

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registered interest
date	05/11/2014
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 his most recent estimate is of the increase in student numbers as a result of the decision to abolish the cap on student numbers; and what his updated estimates of student numbers is for (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Mr Liam Byrne
uin	213632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>Confirmed student numbers for 2014/15 and future years are not yet available. The Higher Education Statistics Agency will publish data on Higher Education entrants and enrolments for 2014/15 in January 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 213631 question first answered 18/12/2014 16:55:38 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

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registered interest
date	09/09/2014
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 proportion of pupils from each ethnic group were admitted to (a) the University of Oxford, (b) the University of Cambridge and (c) other Russell Group universities in the last six years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	208742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>Recent data for years since the tuition fee reforms and access agreements is not yet available, but the latest data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) shows that entry rates to higher education for all ethnic groups in 2013 had increased and overall, there was a much higher representation of black and minority ethnic groups in university than in the overall population of England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the figures before these changes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Estimated percentage of maintained school pupils aged 15 in each ethnic group who progressed to Oxford, Cambridge or Russell Group institutions by age 19</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="4"><p>Progression by age 19 in</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Asian/Asian British</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxford</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridge</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Russell Group</p></td><td><p>11.4%</p></td><td><p>11.5%</p></td><td><p>10.6%</p></td><td><p>10.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Black/Black British</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxford</p></td><td><p>0.1%</p></td><td><p>0.1%</p></td><td><p>0.1%</p></td><td><p>0.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridge</p></td><td><p>0.1%</p></td><td><p>0.1%</p></td><td><p>0.1%</p></td><td><p>0.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Russell Group</p></td><td><p>4.6%</p></td><td><p>4.2%</p></td><td><p>4.4%</p></td><td><p>4.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxford</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td><td><p>0.4%</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridge</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.4%</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Russell Group</p></td><td><p>8.5%</p></td><td><p>8.4%</p></td><td><p>7.8%</p></td><td><p>7.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>White</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxford</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridge</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Russell Group</p></td><td><p>7.2%</p></td><td><p>7.1%</p></td><td><p>6.9%</p></td><td><p>7.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Other Ethnic Group</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxford</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridge</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td><td><p>0.4%</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Russell Group</p></td><td><p>10.8%</p></td><td><p>10.1%</p></td><td><p>9.6%</p></td><td><p>7.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>All Ethnic Groups</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxford</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridge</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Russell Group</p></td><td><p>7.4%</p></td><td><p>7.3%</p></td><td><p>7.1%</p></td><td><p>7.2%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Matched data from the DfE National Pupil Database, the HESA Student Record and the SFA ILR</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Figures are not available for earlier age cohorts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 21/10/2014 13:46:24 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 19765 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero