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registered interest false remove filter
date less than 2015-11-27more like thismore than 2015-11-27
answering body
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills more like this
answering dept id 26 remove filter
answering dept short name Business, Innovation and Skills more like this
answering dept sort name Business, Innovation and Skills more like this
hansard heading Higher Education: Admissions remove filter
house id 1 more like this
legislature
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pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2015 to Question 12715, what steps his Department plans to take to increase the number of (a) pupils from state-funded schools and (b) pupils from state-funded schools who receive free school meals who enter higher education. more like this
tabling member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South more like this
tabling member printed
Bridget Phillipson more like this
uin 18056 more like this
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answer
is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2015-12-04more like thismore than 2015-12-04
answer text <p>We have already taken significant steps to widen participation in higher education. In particular, from 2015/16, we have removed the cap on student numbers, enabling more people than ever before to benefit from higher education. We have also established a stronger framework with increased responsibility placed on providers to widen access. The Director of Fair Access has agreed 183 Access Agreements for 2016/17 containing an estimated £745m to support students from disadvantaged backgrounds – up from £404m in 2009/10.</p><br /><p>The Green Paper <em>Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice, CM 9141 </em>sets out additional steps the Government plans to take to increase the proportion of students from disadvantaged background entering higher education including through the new guidance that we plan to issue to the Director of Fair Access, and through the social mobility taskforce being set up by Universities UK.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Orpington more like this
answering member printed Joseph Johnson more like this
question first answered
less than 2015-12-04T09:38:15.47Zmore like thismore than 2015-12-04T09:38:15.47Z
answering member
4039
label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone more like this
tabling member
4046
label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson more like this