Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many young people resident in Pendle entered higher education in each of the last 20 years.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) publishes young participation rates by parliamentary constituency. These show the proportion of young people in each parliamentary constituency who entered higher education by the age of 19, for each cohort of 18 year olds between 1998 and 2011. These can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/analysis/yp/trendsyp/pment/
The statistics will be updated to include the 2012 cohort of 18 year olds in the summer.