Question follow-through · 82422

Postgraduate Education: Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many postgraduate students are (a) studying and (b) parents of children of nursery age for which the latest data is available..

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
20 Oct 2025
Answer
31 Oct 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many postgraduate students are (a) studying and (b) parents of children of nursery age for which the latest data is available..

  2. 20 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 31 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is responsible for collecting and publishing data on the UK higher education (HE) sector. HESA does not collect data on the parental status of students across all UK HE providers, and so information on the tot...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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