Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many students were undertaking undergraduate degree courses at universities in England, at the most recent date for which figures are available, whose home addresses were in (1) Wales, (2) Scotland, and (3) Northern Ireland.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA – now part of JISC), is responsible for collecting and publishing data about UK higher education. The latest statistics refer to the 2022/23 academic year.

Figure 9 of HESA’s ‘Higher Education Student Statistics: UK, 2022/23’ reports the number of enrolments for UK providers based on student permanent address prior to study between the academic years 2018/19 and 2022/23 and is available by students’ study level. Figure 9 can be accessed at: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb269/figure-9.

It is possible to filter the figures in the table to undergraduate degrees in English universities by setting the ‘Country of HE provider’ drop-down menu to ‘England’, and the ‘Level of study’ drop-down menu to ‘All undergraduate’.