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.
About this written question
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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
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 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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