Speeches

Gareth Johnson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gareth Johnson on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of young people from Dartford who went to university in the last five years.

Joseph Johnson

The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) publishes data on the entry rates for full-time undergraduate courses by parliamentary constituency. UCAS does not publish data on the number of entrants by parliamentary constituency, only entry rates.

Latest statistics from the 2015 UCAS End of Cycle Report for the Dartford constituency are provided in the table. The entry rate is given as the proportion of 18 year olds that accepted a place during a UCAS application cycle.

Table: Higher Education entry rates for 18 year olds from the Dartford Constituency

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

28.6%

23.2%

29.9%

27.3%

32.5%