HC Deb 15 December 1992 vol 216 cc185-6W
17. Mr. McFall

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will estimate the number of young people entering higher education in each of the next 10 years.

Mr. Boswell

The public expenditure proposals announced by my right hon. Friend on 12 November assumed that the proportion of young people entering higher education—which is now well over one in four—would remain broadly constant over the next three years. Beyond that, the Government have made no detailed assumptions about the number of entrants each year.