§ Mr. RosindellTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment he has made of the impact on university applications from students in the London borough of Havering of the introduction of tuition fees. [115343]
18-year-old applicants to full-time and sandwich undergraduate courses in the UK Year of entry: 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Students from Havering Applicants 579 629 563 587 577 635 503 Population 2,647 2,948 2,993 2,823 2,769 2,758 2,756 Percentage applying 21.9 21.3 18.8 20.8 20.8 23.0 18.3 All students from the UK Applicants 167,792 182,723 185,747 181,782 180,385 186,364 188,325 Population 667,593 726,736 747,354 741,836 727,022 735,605 737,343 Percentage applying 25.1 25.1 24.9 24.5 24.8 25.3 25.5 Source:
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS)
§ Mr. Peter DuncanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when he last discussed with the Secretary of State for Scotland his plans to introduce top-up fees in England and Wales(a) before 12 June 2003 and (b) since 12 June 2003. [122295]
§ Alan JohnsonMy right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Skills has regular discussions with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland on this issue.
§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many individual students he estimates will receive the full £1,000 maintenance grant when it is introduced in 2005–06. [122561]
§ Alan Johnson[holding answer 30 June 2003]: I refer my hon. Friend to the response given by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Skills to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Lynne Jones) on 6 February 2003, Official Report, column 357W.
§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what his estimate is of the level of Government subsidy that will be required to service the Government's higher education proposals for 2005–06 onwards. [122562]
§ Alan Johnson[holding answer 30 June 2003]: The publicly planned expenditure for higher education in England in 2005–06 is set out in "The future of higher education" Cmd 5735. Assessments of the costs of meeting the Government's policies for higher education beyond 2005–06 will be made as part of the 2004 Spending Review, work on which will commence shortly.
§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the level of default on loans repayable to the student loans company was in(a) 2001–02 and (b) 2002–03; and if he will express the amount as a percentage of the total amount repaid. [122563]
§ Alan Johnson[holding answer 30 June 2003]: The answer covers only mortgage style loans in public ownership because these are repayable to the Student Loans Company. Income contingent loans are collected
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§ Alan JohnsonThe latest available information, showing the proportion of 18-year-olds who applied for entry to HE, are shown in the table. The figures show that the fall in the proportion of students applying from Havering in 2002 was not reflected nationally.
through the tax system. At the end of financial year 2001–02 the Student Loans Company had collected 85.5 per cent. of the amount recoverable since the scheme began. The amount recovered was £707 million against a recoverable amount of £827 million, leaving some £120 million overdue. The recoverable amount excludes early repayments, deferred repayment of loans and loans where liability to repay has been cancelled.
§ Mr. BoswellTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of total income-contingent student loans outstanding he expects to be repaid, taking into account(a) deaths, (b) defaults, (c) write-offs on account of age, (d) moves abroad and (e) deferments owing to inadequate income. [122818]
§ Alan JohnsonFor reasons of commercial confidentiality information on the percentage resource cost of student loans, and by implication the amount expected to be repaid or written off, is exempt from publication.
§ Mr. BoswellTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if it is his policy that students who drop out of their courses should be required to pay a proportion of any approved top-up fee levied by their higher education institution. [122819]
§ Alan JohnsonThe Government has no plans to prescribe the proportion of tuition fees to be paid by students who drop out of their courses when variable fees are introduced. At present, UUK and SCOP issue joint guidance covering the treatment of private contributions to fees when students withdraw from courses under the current system. Fees for such students are charged at the discretion of the institution concerned, taking account of the guidance, which states that these students should pay fees pro rata to their attendance.
§ Mr. BoswellTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average net present value is per £1,000 of existing student loan, taking into account deferments and the zero real interest rate. [122820]
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§ Alan JohnsonFor reasons of commercial confidentiality, information on the percentage resource cost of student loans, and by implication the net present value of £1,000 of loans issued, is exempt from publication.
§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what percentage of students are(a) eligible for education maintenance allowance and (b) claiming educational maintenance allowance, broken down by (a) private and (b) maintained sector status, in (A) each local education authority and (B) England. [122982]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisThe following table gives a breakdown, by local education authority, of the estimate of the number of students who are in further education and the percentage of those who are claiming Education Maintenance Allowance in the pilot schemes. The estimates of the number of students in further education are based on figures taken from the 1991 population census. Local education authorities do not collect information on how these figures are distributed between private and maintained sector status institutions.
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Local education authority Estimate of number of eligible students in Further Education Number of students who have received EMA Percentage of students who have received EMA Barking and Dagenham 1,500 952 63.5 Barnsley 2,200 1,479 67.2 Birmingham 14,700 10,277 69.9 Bolton 3,600 2,230 61.9 Bradford 5,900 4,850 82.2 Brent 2,600 1,813 69.7 Camden 1,400 1,252 89.4 Cornwall 6,800 5,677 83.5 Coventry 4,400 2,386 54.2 Doncaster 3,500 2,543 72.7 Ealing 2,800 1,649 58.9 Gateshead 2,300 1,835 79.8 Greenwich 2,000 1,366 68.3 Hackney 2,000 1,977 98.9 Halton 1,400 1,081 77.2 Hammersmith and Fulham 1,200 829 69.1 Haringey 2,000 1,579 78.9 Hartlepool 1,000 816 81.6 Islington 1,500 1,309 87.3 Kingston upon Hull 2,400 1,922 80.1 Knowsley 2,000 1,913 95.7 Lambeth 2,300 1,737 75.5 Lancashire (East) 5,100 2,466 48.4 Leeds 8,500 4,857 57.1 Leicester 4,400 3,259 74.1 Lewisham 2,200 1,805 82.0 Lincolnshire (N.E.) 2,200 1,405 63.9 Liverpool 6,200 3,587 57.9 Luton 2,700 1,581 58.6 Manchester 6,300 4,456 70.7 Middlesbrough 1,900 1,578 83.1 Newham 2,700 2,589 95.9 North Tyneside 2,500 1,595 63.8 Northumberland 4,200 2,643 62.9 Nottingham 3,300 2,791 84.6 Oldham 3,000 2,624 87.5 Salford 1,800 1,127 62.6 Sandwell 2,500 2,041 81.6 Sheffield 5,600 3,716 66.4 Southampton 2,500 1,392 55.7 Southwark 1,900 1,467 77.2 South Tyneside 2,000 1,666 83.3 St. Helens 2,200 1,465 66.6 Stoke on Trent 2,600 2,607 100.1 Suffolk 6,800 2,617 38.5 Sunderland 3,500 2,260 64.6 Tameside 2,800 2,026 72.4
Local education authority Estimate of number of eligible students in Further Education Number of students who have received EMA Percentage of students who have received EMA Tower Hamlets 2,200 2,765 125.7 Wakefield 4,300 2,201 51.2 Walsall 3,200 2,649 82.8 Waltham Forest 2,200 1,577 71.7 Wandsworth 1,700 1,013 59.6 Wigan 3,700 2,546 68.8 Wirral 4,100 2,540 61.9 Wolverhampton 3,200 2,359 73.7 Worcestershire 5,800 3,040 52.4 England total 189,300 131,782 169.6 1 Average Notes:
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) is currently paid to young people who reside in one of the pilot areas, irrespective of the location of the institution they attend. We only have estimated figures for the number of young people living in each local education authority (LEA) area who participate in further education. In some areas, particularly those where there has been rapid population movements, the estimates carry some degree of uncertainty; therefore there are some anomalies in the right hand column.