§ Mr. ChaytorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will make it his policy to require Oxford and Cambridge universities to publish annually in a standardised format information on admissions, disaggregated by college, in respect of previous educational establishment categorised by(a) private schools, (b) state grammar schools, c) comprehensive schools, formerly grant maintained, (d) other comprehensive schools, (e) sixth form colleges and (f) other further education colleges. [158034]
§ Mr. Wicks[holding answer 25 April 2001]The Secretary of State does not have any plans to require Oxford or Cambridge to publish admissions data. Oxford and Cambridge already publish data on applications and admissions which I referred to in my reply on 3 April 2001,Official Report, column 124W. Both institutions are aware of the need to continue to review and improve both their admissions procedures and the information which they make publicly available and we look forward to further progress as a result.