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1226610

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Arts: Higher Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2020 to Question 70489 on higher education: finance, what the cost to the public purse has been of support for media studies courses in higher education in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	76893
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2020 answer text <p>Reliable estimates of the historic cost to the public purse of degree subjects at this level of disaggregation are not available.</p><p>Recent research published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies looked at how financial returns to higher education, for both students and the taxpayer, differ by subject studied. They estimate that, on average, the taxpayer gains £110,000 per male graduate and £30,000 per female graduate through extra tax and National Insurance contributions less unpaid student loans, with economics and medicine seeing the greatest returns and creative arts seeing the lowest returns. The publication is available here:<br> <a href="https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/R167-The-impact-of-undergraduate-degrees-on-lifetime-earnings.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/R167-The-impact-of-undergraduate-degrees-on-lifetime-earnings.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 76894 question first answered 28/07/2020 16:18:59 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1226607

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Higher Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of the higher education student finance system by 2030 in the absence of policy changes.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	76892
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2020 answer text <p>The department publishes forecasts of higher education student numbers, student loan outlay and student loan repayments in England. The most recent publication (June 2019) is available at:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2018-to-2019</a>.</p><p>These forecasts assume policies as set in June 2019 and the forecast of economic conditions at that point by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). The forecasts of student loan outlay in 2020-21 and 2030-31 are also repeated in the attached table.</p><p>The long-term cost to the government of the student finance system depends on the proportion of the student loan outlay which is expected to be repaid. We do not routinely publish forecasts of the cost of student loans to the public purse to 2030 due to the high level of uncertainty inherent in such longer-term forecasts of income-contingent loans.</p><p>Updates to this forecast will be published in ‘Student loan forecasts, England: 2019 to 2020’, which is pre-announced for publication in September 2020.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 28/07/2020 16:15:22 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan attachment 1 file name 76892_forecasts_student_loan_outlay.xls title 76892_table
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1221455

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, after accounting for changes to the classification of student loans, how much (a) was spent on higher education in each of the last 10 years and (b) has been allocated in each year of the forecast period.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	70489
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2020 answer text <p>Higher education spending is reflected in the national accounts in different ways. Net spending by government on higher education over the year contributes to Public Sector Net Borrowing (PSNB), also known as the deficit.</p><p>Grants to students and providers are government spending and increase the deficit. The recent classification decision by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) changed the way that student loans contribute to the deficit. Under the reclassification, the part of the maintenance and tuition loan which is not expected to be repaid is considered spending and increases the deficit. Any accruing interest which is expected to be repaid is considered as income, decreasing the deficit. The difference between spending on loans which are not expected to be repaid and expected interest income represents the net spending by the government on student loans over the year.</p><p>More detail on the reclassification by the ONS is at: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicsectorfinance/methodologies/studentloansinthepublicsectorfinancesamethodologicalguide" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicsectorfinance/methodologies/studentloansinthepublicsectorfinancesamethodologicalguide</a>.</p><p>A table summarising the total deficit cost of higher education is attached. Figures are not yet available for the 2019/20 academic year.</p><p>Historic information on student loans is published by the Student Loans Company and available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/student-loans-company/about/statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/student-loans-company/about/statistics</a>.</p><p>The Office for Students (OfS) is responsible for distributing funding to the sector on behalf of the department. Details of future teaching grant allocation budgets from the department to the OfS are published at <a href="https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/regulation/guidance-from-government/" target="_blank">https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/regulation/guidance-from-government/</a>.</p><p>The Office for Budget Responsibility publishes the forecast impact of student loans on PSNB. This is available in table 3.24 of the ‘March 2020 Economic and Fiscal Outlook’: <a href="https://cdn.obr.uk/EFO_March-2020_Accessible.pdf" target="_blank">https://cdn.obr.uk/EFO_March-2020_Accessible.pdf</a>. These figures include student loans funded by the devolved administrations and the department.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 16/07/2020 14:14:53 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan attachment 1 file name 70489-table-showing-higher-education-spending-from-2009-to-2019.pdf title 70489_table
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1226611

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2020 to question 70489 on higher education, what the cost was to the public purse of support for higher education in each of the last 10 years, by degree subject area.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	76894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2020 answer text <p>Reliable estimates of the historic cost to the public purse of degree subjects at this level of disaggregation are not available.</p><p>Recent research published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies looked at how financial returns to higher education, for both students and the taxpayer, differ by subject studied. They estimate that, on average, the taxpayer gains £110,000 per male graduate and £30,000 per female graduate through extra tax and National Insurance contributions less unpaid student loans, with economics and medicine seeing the greatest returns and creative arts seeing the lowest returns. The publication is available here:<br> <a href="https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/R167-The-impact-of-undergraduate-degrees-on-lifetime-earnings.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/R167-The-impact-of-undergraduate-degrees-on-lifetime-earnings.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 76893 question first answered 28/07/2020 16:18:59 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1197605

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) students, (b) undergraduates and (c) postgraduates there were studying at each higher education institution in each year since 2009; and how many of those students in each of those categories were from (i) the UK, (ii) the EU (iii) non-UK, non-EU countries, (iv) China, (v) Macau and (vi) Hong Kong in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	49820
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on students enrolled in higher education.</p><p>Counts of student enrolments at each UK higher education institution (HEI) are available by level of study and region of domicile (UK, EU, non-EU) for the academic years 2014/15 to 2018/19 in Table 1 of HESA’s Higher Education Student Data pages: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-1" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-1</a>.</p><p>In addition, data is available by level of study and individual countries of domicile for the academic years 2014/15 to 2018/19 in Table 28 of HESA’s Student Data pages: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-28" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-28</a>.</p><p>Student enrolment data prior to 2014/15 can be accessed through HESA’s publications archive at <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications</a>. The drop-down “Students in Higher Education” shows the list of historic publications going back to the academic year 1994/95. Equivalent information exists for Table 1 of each publication year.</p><p>Student enrolment data prior to 2014/15 by individual countries of domicile is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 02/06/2020 14:52:31 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1197613

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much (a) total income and (b) fee income each higher education institution received from (i) all students, (ii) UK students, (iii) all non-UK students, (iv) students from (A) China, (B) Macau and (C) Hong Kong in each year since 2009.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	49821
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on the finances of higher education providers[1] in the UK.</p><p>Income data by source at each UK higher education provider is available in Table 7 of HESA’s ‘Higher Education Provider Data: Finance’ pages for the academic years 2015/16 to 2018/19 at <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/finances/table-7" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/finances/table-7</a>.</p><p>More detailed information about income from tuition fees, such as the domicile status (UK, EU and non-EU) and the level of study it relates to, can be found in Table 6:<br> <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/finances/table-6" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/finances/table-6</a>.</p><p>Data prior to 2015/16 can be accessed through HESA’s publications archive at: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications</a>.</p><p>The drop-down ‘Finances of Higher Education Providers’ shows the list of historical publications going back to the academic year 1994/95. Largely equivalent information can be found in Tables 2 to 5 of each publication year.</p><p>The financial information available from HESA is not collected for specific countries of origin. An indication of the relative importance to each provider of students from China, Macau and Hong Kong over the past 5 years is available in Table 28 of HESA’s ‘Higher Education Student Data’ pages: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-28" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-28</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Since 2018/19, this includes both higher education (HEIs) and alternative providers (APs).</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 49822 question first answered 02/06/2020 08:50:00 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1197615

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much fee income each higher education institution received from (a) postgraduates, (b) UK postgraduates, (c) non-UK postgraduates and (d) postgraduates from (i) China, (ii) Macau and (iii) Hong Kong, in each year since 2009.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	49822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on the finances of higher education providers[1] in the UK.</p><p>Income data by source at each UK higher education provider is available in Table 7 of HESA’s ‘Higher Education Provider Data: Finance’ pages for the academic years 2015/16 to 2018/19 at <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/finances/table-7" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/finances/table-7</a>.</p><p>More detailed information about income from tuition fees, such as the domicile status (UK, EU and non-EU) and the level of study it relates to, can be found in Table 6:<br> <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/finances/table-6" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/finances/table-6</a>.</p><p>Data prior to 2015/16 can be accessed through HESA’s publications archive at: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications</a>.</p><p>The drop-down ‘Finances of Higher Education Providers’ shows the list of historical publications going back to the academic year 1994/95. Largely equivalent information can be found in Tables 2 to 5 of each publication year.</p><p>The financial information available from HESA is not collected for specific countries of origin. An indication of the relative importance to each provider of students from China, Macau and Hong Kong over the past 5 years is available in Table 28 of HESA’s ‘Higher Education Student Data’ pages: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-28" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-28</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Since 2018/19, this includes both higher education (HEIs) and alternative providers (APs).</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 49821 question first answered 02/06/2020 08:50:00 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1225196

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Students: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the cost of student finance is forecast to increase in the absence of further policy changes in the next three years.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	74726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2020 answer text <p>The department publishes forecasts of higher education student numbers, student loan outlay and student loan repayments in England. The most recent publication, published in June 2019, covers financial years up to 2023-24 and academic years for the same period. These figures are available in the ‘Student loan forecasts, England: 2018 to 2019’, which is available at:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2018-to-2019</a>.</p><p>The figures can be used to derive the forecast cost of student finance, as set out in Table A in the attached tables under the policies and economic conditions of June 2019.</p><p>The Resource Accounting and Budgeting (RAB) charge is the proportion of loan outlay that is expected to not be repaid when future repayments are valued in present terms. This takes into account the effect of inflation and the estimated cost of government borrowing over time.</p><p>The RAB cost is the product of student loan outlay and the RAB charge and represents the long-term monetary cost to government of providing student loan funding</p><p>Updates to this forecast will be published in 'Student loan forecasts, England: 2019 to 2020'<em>, </em>which is pre-announced for publication in September 2020.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan attachment 1 file name 74726_table_A.pdf title 74726_table_A 2 file name 74726_table_B.pdf title 74726_table_B question first answered 28/07/2020 17:04:10 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1198971

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Universities: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 5 June 2003 to Question HL2549, how many students entered (a) Oxford and (b) Cambridge universities from (i) UK independent (ii) UK state schools (iii) other and overseas (iv) in total.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	52464
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2020 answer text <p>The latest data published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) for the academic year 2018/19 is shown in the attached table.</p><p>Information on the type of school that entrants to the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge have come from is only published for entrants under the age of 21. This is because the data collected is the previous educational provider that was attended by the entrant. Therefore, for mature students entering the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge, this may relate to study subsequent to key stage 5.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 04/06/2020 14:27:36 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan attachment 1 file name 52464 table showing full time undergraduate entrants to Oxford and Cambridge in academic year 2018 to 2019.doc title 52464_table
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1221019

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Universities: Russell Group
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils in each UK region and nation progressed to a Russell Group university in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	69678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>The attached tables show the number and percentage of students who progressed to a Russell Group university in the year after reaching the end of 16 to 18 study in state-funded schools and colleges in each region of England. The tables cover the last 8 years for which data is available. The tables only include students who took approved level 3 qualifications, including A levels. Only students who were enrolled for at least 2 terms in the destination year are counted.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 09/07/2020 12:41:45 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan attachment 1 file name 69678 tables showing percentage of students who progressed to a Russell Group university.doc title 69678_tables
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien