Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make representations to UCAS on releasing anonymised individual data on applications and admissions to universities for the purpose of research on access to higher education.

We encourage organisations holding relevant data, including the Higher Education Statistics Agency, UCAS, HEFCE and the Student Loans Company, to make it publicly available so it can be analysed and re-presented in a variety of formats to help students make informed choices about higher education.

I have asked the Chief Executive of UCAS, Mary Curnock Cook, to look into this and reply to the hon. Member.