Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people in Easington constituency (a) enrolled in, (b) applied to and (c) dropped out of university in the last 12 months.

The Department for Education analysis of data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) shows that there were 780 first year enrolments[1] in higher education at UK Higher Education Institutions in the academic year 2015/16 who were domiciled in Easington parliamentary constituency prior to their studies.

Data on the number of applicants to higher education by parliamentary constituency is not currently publicly available from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), however, they do publish 18-year-old application rates at this level. In 2017 the application rate for 18 year olds in Easington was 27.2%.

Information on the number of people dropping out of university by parliamentary constituency is not published by HESA and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.

[1] Includes students entering both undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Parliamentary constituency and local authority is derived from the student's postcode prior to study. Figures are rounded to the nearest five.