§ Mr. Andrew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on his Department's decision no longer to collect advanced courses early statistics, with the reasons for this decision; and what assessment he has made of the impact of this decision on planning for higher education provision on a regional basis.
Mr. JacksonSome 80 per cent. of enrolments in higher education in England outside the universities are in institutions funded by the Polytechnic and College Funding Council. That body is planning its own early statistics survey for next October, which should enable trends in enrolments to be estimated within broad subject-groups.