HC Deb 12 May 1969 vol 783 c175W
Mr. Bryan

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of the population, in the last year for which figures are available, received university awards from local education authorities in the East Riding of Yorkshire, the Yorkshire and Humber-side Region as a whole and in England as a whole, respectively.

Mrs. Shirley Williams

The numbers of new university awards taken up in 1968 represent 77.8 per 1,000 of a single age group in the East Riding of York shire, 58.9 in the Yorkshire and Humberside Region and 67.0 in England as a whole.