Question follow-through · 17338
Higher Education: Admissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether POLAR4 is intended to measure socio-economic background.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 9 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 17 Jul 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether POLAR4 is intended to measure socio-economic background.
13 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Office for Students (OfS) publishes POLAR4 data and provides information on its website about this metric, available at: https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/data-and-analysis/young-participation-by-area/about-polar-and-adult-he/.The OfS states that P...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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