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119W Written Answers 26 OCTOBER 2009 Written Answers 120W Ian Lucas: The ownership of the Guaranteed Export Finance Corporation plc by two charitable trusts has no implications for ECGD’s 2008-09 Resource Accounts. The nature of the transactions between ECGD and Guaranteed Export Finance Corporation are as described in note 37 to ECGD’s Resource Accounts for 2008-09. Higher Education Stephen Williams: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much his Department and its predecessors spent on increasing the retention rate in higher education in each of the last five years. [294328] Mr. Lammy: In addition to its core teaching funding, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) provides institutions with additional funding to help support student retention. The total amounts for the last five academic years are as follows: £ 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Full Time Students 159,353,247 166,640,907 184,128,520 188,582,804 192,875,340 Part Time Students 53,883,613 54,283,169 55,763,058 57,351,573 60,292,489 Source: Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) We maintain very good completion rates for first degrees—OECD statistics show that the UK ranks third of 27 countries. This has been achieved and maintained during a period when higher education has been opened up to both increased numbers and a greater diversity of students. Higher Education: Age Participation Rates Jim Cousins: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what the rate of participation by 18 year olds resident in each region of England in higher education has been in each year since 2003-04. [293185] Mr. Lammy: This information is currently only available for the years 2005-06 and 2006-07. Nationally, the latest figures show that some 31 per cent. of young people who were in maintained schools at age 15 in 2002/03 had progressed to HE by age 19 by 2006/07. This latest percentage is derived from the matched Higher Education Statistics—National Pupil Database—Individual Learning Record dataset and reflects those persons who progress to HE in 2005/06 at age 18 or in 2006/07 at age 19. The figures for each Government office region (GOR) are shown in the table. Children aged 15 were allocated to each GOR based on the location of the school they attended. Percentage of 15-year-old students in maintained schools in England who progressed to higher education by age 19—split by Government office region 2005-06 1 2006-07 2 London 35 36 West Midlands 29 30 North West 29 30 Yorkshire and the Humber 27 27 North East 27 27 South West 29 29 East of England 30 30 South East 32 32 East Midlands 30 30 England 30 31 1 Percentage of children aged 15 attending maintained schools in 2001-02 who progressed to higher education by 2005-06 by age 19 2 Percentage of children aged 15 attending maintained schools in 2002-03 who progressed to higher education by 2006-07 by age 19 Source: Matched Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), National Pupil Database (NPD) and Individual Learner Record (ILR) Higher Education: East of England Mr. Spring: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many people aged (a) 21 years and under and (b) over 21 years old in each socio-economic group resident in (i) West Suffolk constituency, (ii) Suffolk and (iii) the East of England attended university in each of the last five years. [296062] students. Figures are provided for entrants aged under 21, and 21 and over as the socio-economic class data has a different basis for these two distinct age groups. Socio-economic class is based on occupation information: those aged under 21 provide their parent’s occupation, and those aged 21 and over provide their own occupation. Figures for the 2008-09 academic year will be available from the Higher Education Statistics Agency in January 2010. Mr. Lammy: The latest available information from the Higher Education Statistics Agency is shown in Tables 1 to 3. The figures are shown for full-time undergraduate entrants as socio-economic class (SEC) information is not available for part-time higher education
121W Written Answers 26 OCTOBER 2009 Written Answers 122W Table 1: Full-Time Undergraduate entrants from West Suffolk <strong>Parliament</strong>ary Constituency 1 UK Higher Education Institutions 2 : Academic years 2003-04 to 2007-08 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 Socio economic classification Under 21 Higher managerial and professional occupations Lower managerial and professional occupations 21 and over Under 21 21 and over Under 21 21 and over Under 21 21 and over Under 21 21 and over 55 5 50 5 50 0 55 5 55 0 55 5 80 5 70 5 85 0 100 15 Intermediate 30 5 25 5 35 5 30 5 45 10 occupations Small employers and 10 0 20 0 30 0 20 0 20 0 own account workers Lower supervisory and 10 0 15 0 15 0 20 0 20 0 technical occupations Semi-routine 20 5 30 5 30 10 30 5 35 5 occupations Routine occupations 5 0 15 5 15 0 15 0 20 10 Missing 3 60 40 50 55 65 55 70 35 85 30 1 The table does not include entrants whose constituency cannot be established due to missing or invalid home postcodes. 2 Excludes the Open University due to inconsistencies in their coding of entrants across the time series. 3 Includes those classified as ″Never worked and long-term unemployed″, ″Not classified″ and ″Missing″. Notes: Figures are based on a HESA standard registration population and have been rounded to the nearest five. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). Higher Education: Russell Group Mr. Hayes: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the number of pupils in state education at the age of 17 years who subsequently studied at Russell Group universities in the latest period for which information is available. [295585] Mr. Lammy: The information is not currently available in the form requested. There may be possibilities for deriving a valid progression statistic for 17-year-olds from the matched Higher Education Statistics, National Pupil dataset and Individual Learning Record but such analysis has not been carried out to date. Developing a sufficiently robust approach and quality assuring the results could be completed only at disproportionate cost. Therefore, the following figures have been provided as an alternative. Figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) show in the 2007-08 academic year, 35,390 18-year-old full-time undergraduate entrants whose previous institution was either a state school or FE college attended Russell Group HE institutions in the UK. This equates to 25 per cent. of all 18-year-old full-time undergraduate entrants to HE from state schools or FE colleges. Figures for the 2008-09 academic year will be available in January 2010. Mr. Hayes: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the proportion of pupils from each socio-economic group in state secondary education who subsequently studied at Russell Group universities in the latest period for which information is available. [295586] Mr. Lammy: It is estimated that 6 per cent. of young people who were in English maintained schools and aged 15 at the start of academic year 2002-03, progressed to HE at a Russell Group institution by the age of 19 (in 2006-07). The following table shows the composition of this group by each socio-economic group. Figures for 2007-08 will be available in 2010. Pupils aged 15 at the start of the 2002-03 academic year, in English maintained schools, who progressed to HE at a Russell Group institution by the age of 19 in 2006-07: Socio-economic breakdown Socio-economic classification Proportion (percentage) Higher managerial and professional 25 occupations Lower managerial and professional 28 occupations Intermediate occupations 11 Small employers and own account 5 workers Lower supervisory and technical 3 occupations Semi-routine occupations 7 Routine occupations 3 Missing 1 18 1 Includes those classified as missing, not classified and never worked and long term unemployed. Source: Matched data from the National Pupil Database, the Higher Education Statistics Agency Student Record and the Learning and Skills Council Individualised Learner Record. Insolvency Service: Publicity John Penrose: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what the reasons were for the higher expenditure by the Insolvency Service on promotional items in 2007-08 than in the previous two years. [294077] Ian Lucas: During the year 2007-08, £23,489.94 was spent. Of this, £11,892.22 was assigned to the service’s Enabling the Future (EtF) programme and £11,680 was assigned to the rest of the service. EtF is a major change programme which is enabling Insolvency Service staff to provide the best possible service to customers. It represents a major programme of investment in the service’s systems and the way it works, aimed at: providing modern tools and processes
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