Question follow-through · 54334

Student Numbers: Higher Education

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.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
22 May 2025
Target answer date
2 Jun 2025
Answer
3 Jun 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 22 May 2025

    Question tabled

    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.

  2. 2 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    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 ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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