David Ruffley – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many undergraduate students were resident in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.

Mr David Willetts

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on students at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The number of undergraduate enrolments to UK HEIs, for students domiciled in Bury St Edmunds parliamentary constituency, Suffolk Local Authority and England and Wales prior to their course, has been provided in the following table.

Information for the 2013/14 academic year will become available from HESA in January 2015.

Undergraduate enrolments domiciled in Bury St Edmunds Parliamentary Constituency⁽¹⁾, Suffolk Local Authority and England and Wales, prior to their course

UK Higher Education Institutions(2)

Academic years 2008/09 to 2012/13

	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13
Bury St Edmunds Parliamentary Constituency	2,890	3,045	3,125	3,210	2,860
Suffolk Local Authority	17,020	17,885	17,645	17,975	16,340
England and Wales	1,463,160	1,501,560	1,490,205	1,501,070	1,379,775

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record

Notes: Figures are based on a HESA standard registration population and have been rounded to the nearest five, so components may not sum to totals.

(1) Parliamentary constituency is derived from the student’s postcode. Data for 2010/11 onwards is based on the revised boundaries since the 2010 General Election.

(2) Includes students attending Open University.