Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the number of people from (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) Bexley Borough who graduated from university in the 2016-17 academic year.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes information on enrolments and qualifications obtained at UK higher education institutions. HESA published the latest statistics, referring to the 2016/17 academic year, on 11 January 2018 and this information is available at: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/11-01-2018/sfr247-higher-education-student-statistics.

The number of qualifiers from higher education courses in the 2016/17 academic year who were domiciled in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) Bexley local authority prior to study has been provided in the table.

Higher Education qualifiers¹⁾²⁾³⁾ by location of domicile prior to study⁴⁾

UK Higher Education Institutions

Academic year 2016/17

Source: DfE analysis of the Higher Education Statistics Agency’s (HESA) Student Record 2016/17

Notes:

1) Figures are based on the HESA qualifications obtained population (https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/definitions/students).

2) Includes qualifiers from both undergraduate and postgraduate levels of study.

3) All numbers are rounded up or down to the nearest multiple of five.

4) Constituency and local authority are derived from the student’s postcode prior to study.