§ Dr. GibsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many students have(a) applied and (b) been recruited to each medical school in (i) England and Wales and (ii) Scotland in the last five years, broken down by (1) gender, (2) ethnicity and (3) social class. [158439]
Revenue Funding
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£ Financial year Budget share 1Standards Fund (devolved) School Standards Grant Other recurrent funding Total funding 1997–98 1,599,790 14,279 n/a 3,900 1,617,969 1998–99 1,670,530 63,876 n/a 16,803 1,751,209 1999–2000 2,485,490 203,666 n/a 18,228 2,707,384 2000–01 3,075,610 352,830 40,000 42,670 3,511,110 2001–022 2,937,380 418,680 70,000 0 3,426,060 1 The Standards Funds figures include National Grid for Learning grants but exclude New Deal for Schools Devolved Formula capital, Seed Challenge capital and school security grant. 2 The 2001–02 figures are provisional (except in the case of School Standards Grant).
§ Mr. Wicks[holding answer 23 April 2001]: The available data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) are shown in the table. UCAS do not release data for individual institutions at subject level. Information on the numbers of undergraduate entrants to medical schools by socio-economic group has been published at institution level for the last two years in the circular "Performance indicators in higher education in the UK (00/40 and 99/66)"1, copies of which are available from the Library.
1 Produced by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
Home domiciled applicants to full-time courses and sandwich courses in medicine institutions in the United Kingdom: year of entry 1996–2000 Year of entry 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 Total applicants of which: 12,025 12,076 11.807 10,972 10,226 Gender Male 5,950 5,795 5,637 5,035 4,455 Female 6,075 6,281 6,170 5,937 5,771 Ethnic background White 5,879 5,969 5,894 5,405 5,198 Black Caribbean 46 43 45 34 38 Black African 268 241 249 250 230 Black Other 30 50 58 42 26 Indian 1,086 1,092 1,064 978 926 Pakistani 649 570 572 488 452 Bangladeshi 181 159 162 147 119 Chinese 195 189 158 165 174 Other Asian 513 457 435 445 402 Other 317 285 279 290 278 Not known 2,861 3,021 2,891 2,728 2,383 Social class Professional 4,279 4,084 3,542 3,126 2,970 Intermediate 4,537 4,370 3,771 3,284 3,035 Skilled Manual 938 882 796 724 695 Skilled non-Manual 982 920 817 793 704 Partly Skilled 524 527 460 399 351 Unskilled 105 107 84 71 77 Not known 660 1,186 2,337 2,575 2,394