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Student Numbers: Higher Education

Asked by Preet Kaur GillLabour (Co-op)Department for EducationTabled Answered 3 June 2025UIN 54334

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the number of students enrolled in higher education in the (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24 academic years, broken down by religion.

Answered by Janet Daby

Statistics on higher education (HE) student enrolments by personal characteristics, including the number of HE student enrolments in the 2023/24 and 2023/24 academic years broken down by religious beliefs, are published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency and can be found here: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb271/figure-5.

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