Mr. Tim Conlon:

I will try to be brief in respect of progress to date on access groups. In 2019-2020, there were five students from disadvantaged areas to every ten students from more affluent areas. These are perhaps the challenges first and then I might talk about progress. Some 10% of the student population came from disadvantaged areas compared to 19% from more affluent areas. Only 51 students in the country come from extremely disadvantaged backgrounds. In courses with high points, such as medicine, 5% of new entrants come from disadvantaged areas. We can see from the deprivation index scores, DIS, data where students are coming from.