Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent estimate his Department has made of numbers of applications to English universities in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-19 and (e) 2019-20; and what effect the decision to remove student number controls in December 2013 has had on those estimates.
The Department does not estimate the number of applications to English universities.