Dear Sir or Madam,

I request the "total" Higher Education Qualifiers by Parliamentary
Constituency, for the latest 3 years available!

Yours faithfully,

James Trice

Thank you for your recent email. A reply will be sent to you as soon as
possible (where a response is required). For information, the
departmental standard for correspondence received is that responses
should be sent within 15 working days or 20 working days if you are
requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2008/0060527

Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
http://www.dius.gov.uk/index.htm

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Dear Mr Trice,

I am writing in response to your request for information dated 15th July
2008 to advise you that the information you requested is being withheld
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The exemption which applies
to this information is section 21(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information
Act.

You requested the "total" Higher Education Qualifiers by Parliamentary
Constituency, for the latest 3 years available.

The information you are seeking is available (for a fee) from the Higher
Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Information Provision team by
completing the online data request form on the following webpage:

http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php/componen...
/
<http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php/componen...
3/>

I am therefore unable to provide you with the information you require
under the Freedom of Information Act Section 21(1)(a) which exempts
disclosure of information if it is reasonably accessible by other means.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please
remember to quote our reference number in any future communications.

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to
your request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our
decision, you should write to me within two calendar months of the date
of this letter.

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the
ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted our
complaints/review procedure.

Yours sincerely
Jessica Ashton
1 FL Area C
Mowden Hall
Staindrop Road
Darlington
DL3 9BG
[email address]
01325 392605

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number
2008/0060527.

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Dear Sir or Madam,

You wrote the following:

"The information you are seeking is available (for a fee) from the
Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Information Provision
team by completing the online data request form on the following
webpage:"

I regret to inform you, from the following link:

http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php/content/...

Parliamentary Constituency is not available?, please provide
requested information.

If you would feel more comfortable by letting this request. be
handled by a more senior member of staff, please feel free to do
so.

Yours sincerely,

James Trice

Thank you for your recent email. A reply will be sent to you as soon as
possible (where a response is required). For information, the
departmental standard for correspondence received is that responses
should be sent within 15 working days or 20 working days if you are
requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2008/0062541

Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
http://www.dius.gov.uk/index.htm

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Dear Mr Trice,

I refer to your request received on 22 July 2008 under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 regarding my response to your earlier request which
was allocated the reference number of 2008/0060527.

I previously advised you that the information you requested on higher
education qualifiers broken down by Parliamentary constituency is
available from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) for a fee.
This has been confirmed by a member of the information provision team at
HESA.

The link to which you refer shows 'commonly requested student data
fields'. Information at Parliamentary constituency level has not
necessarily been commonly requested, but as previously advised, the
information you are seeking is available for a fee from the Higher
Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Information Provision team by
completing the online data request form on the following webpage:

http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php/componen...
/

I would like to make you aware that all responses to FOI requests are
cleared by the department's FOI team and, separately, by a senior member
of staff, before any final response is sent. Therefore, the response to
your original request (2008/0060257) has already been handled at a
senior level.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please
remember to quote our reference number in any future communications.

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to
your request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our
decision, you should write to me within two calendar months of the date
of this letter.

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the
ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted our
complaints/review procedure.

Yours sincerely,

Jessica Ashton

1 FL Area C
Mowden Hall
Staindrop Road
Darlington
DL3 9BG
[email address]
<mailto:[email address].uk01325>
01325 392605

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number
2008/0062541.

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Dear Sir or Madam,

DIUS owns the student record, not HESA!

My request is for data from the "student record"

I have the information required (thanks to users of the site
"whatdotheyknow.com"), however you're department seems to want this
information withheld from the public for political reasons.

An example

228,345 first degree qualifiers England domiciles 2006-2007 24,575
first degree qualifiers Scotland domiciles 2006-2007

£7.5 billion public money for English universities £1.6 billion
public money for Scottish universities.

£32,000 average cost public monies per first degree England
domiciles £65,000 average cost public monies per first degree
Scotland domiciles

From the public funding per first degree awarded I can understand
why you're department will fight at all costs to withhold requested
information.

You might be a little more truthful in informing the general public
who are reading this correspondence, that HESA will in fact give 10
pieces of information free of charge

A member of the House of Lords has agreed to help me, and will in
due course be asking for the information via parliament.

I understand my appeals to the information commissioner will take
maybe 3 years to conclude, a price I’m willing to pay.

Yours sincerely,

James Trice

Dear Sir or Madam,

The answer to my question (at least for first degree qualifiers per
parliamentary constituency)2006-2007 on average totals

First degree awards average per parliamentary constituency UK
2006-2007.

432 first degree awards to England domiciles 417 first degree
awards to Scotland domiciles 337 first degree awards to Wales
domiciles 574 first degree awards to N Ireland domiciles

Yours sincerely,

James Trice

Thank you for your recent email. A reply will be sent to you as soon as possible (where a response is required). For information, the departmental standard for correspondence received is that responses should be sent within 15 working days or 20 working days if you are requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2008/0063406

Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills http://www.dius.gov.uk/index.htm

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Thank you for your recent email. A reply will be sent to you as soon
as possible (where a response is required). For information, the
departmental standard for correspondence received is that responses
should be sent within 15 working days or 20 working days if you are
requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2008/0063405

Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
http://www.dius.gov.uk/index.htm

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