HC Deb 16 January 1990 vol 165 c156W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the latest year for which his Department has any estimates of the numbers of students in higher education in the United Kingdom; and what is the estimate for that year.

Mr. Jackson

The Department has not projected beyond the year 2000, when the most recent figures indicate that there will be about 1,130,000 students in higher education in Great Britain.