Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people from (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England graduated from university in the 2016-17 academic year.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes information on enrolments and qualifications obtained at UK higher education institutions. The latest statistics, referring to the 2016/17 academic year, were published on 11 January 2018 at the following link: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/11-01-2018/sfr247-higher-education-student-statistics.

The number of qualifiers from higher education courses who were domiciled in Jarrow constituency, South Tyneside local authority, the North East region and England, prior to study in the 2016/17 academic year, has been provided in the table below.

Higher Education qualifiers¹⁾²⁾³⁾ by place of domicile prior to study⁴⁾

UK Higher Education Institutions

Academic year 2016/17

Source: Department for Education analysis of HESA’s Student Record

Notes:

1) Figures are based on the HESA qualifications obtained population (https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/definitions/students).

2) Includes qualifiers from both undergraduate and postgraduate levels of study.

3) Figures are rounded to the nearest multiple of five.

4) Constituency and local authority is derived from the student's postcode prior to study.