Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) higher education and (b) further edcuation participation rates for young people aged 18 to 25 are in (i) the 100 poorest Lower Super Output areas (LSOA) and (ii) the 100 richest Lower Super Output areas in England in each year for which data is available; and what the (A) town, (B) local authority area and (C) constituency was of each LSOA.

Information on higher and further education participation rates by Lower Super Output areas is not available and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.

The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) publish the participation of 18 year olds who enter higher education aged 18 or 19 at ward level. http://www.hefce.ac.uk/analysis/yp/POLAR/

The further education (FE) and skills statistical first release (SFR) (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/further-education-and-skills-statistical-first-release-sfr) provides a range of headline figures. The FE and skills geography data tool provides data on FE and English and maths participation and achievements, and apprenticeship starts and achievements at the constituency, local education authority, local authority, and regional level. This is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/601753/FE-and-skills-geography-data-tool-v1.1.xlsm