Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what percentage of young people eligible for free school meals at 15 in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) England entered higher education by the age of 19 in each of the last three years for which data is available.

The department publishes information on the percentage of 15 year old pupils from state-funded and special schools by free school meal status who entered higher education (HE) by age 19 by local authority and region.

Figures for Nottinghamshire and England can be found in Table 2a of the following file:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/635104/SFR39-2017-MainTables.xlsx.

We do not publish information for progression to Russell Group universities on this basis. However, figures for the percentage of 15 year old pupils from state-funded and special schools by free school meal status who entered the most selective HE institutions by age 19 by local authority and region were published as part of the Social Mobility Index. The most selective institutions are defined as the top third of providers, ranked by the average Universities and Colleges Admissions Service tariff score.

Figures for Nottinghamshire and England for the latest three years are available in the Selective HE sheet of the following file: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/662507/SMI_2017_Final_v1.1.xlsx.

Data is not available at parliamentary constituency level.