Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) all pupils and (b) pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds in (i) Middlesbrough and (ii) Redcar and Cleveland entered university in each year since 2009-10.

The department publishes information on the percentage of 15 year old pupils from state-funded and special schools who entered higher education by age 19 by free school meal status, local authority and region. Figures for Middlesbrough, and Redcar and Cleveland can be found in Table 2a of the following file:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/635104/SFR39-2017-MainTables.xlsx.