Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many higher-education students are living in (a) Birmingham and (b) Birmingham, Northfield constituency.

Statistics identifying the term-time address of higher education students can only be provided at disproportionate cost. However, Table 3 of the Higher Education Statistics Agency’s (HESA) Statistical First Release (SFR) entitled ‘Higher education student enrolments and qualifications obtained at higher education providers in the United Kingdom 2014/15’ shows that there were 76,140 enrolments at higher education institutions (HEIs) in Birmingham[1] in the academic year 2014/15. The SFR is available at the following link:

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/14-01-2016/sfr224-enrolments-and-qualifications

[1] The count includes higher education enrolments at undergraduate and postgraduate level from all countries of domicile at Aston University, Birmingham City University, The University of Birmingham, University College Birmingham and Newman University.