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1388663

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date	16/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Degrees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the take-up of degree apprenticeships against his Department's initial targets for take-up.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	94475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2022 answer text <p>Apprenticeships at levels 6 and 7, including degree apprenticeships, are an important and growing part of our education and skills system and we are encouraged by the take-up so far. We have seen year on year growth since their inception, and in the last academic year there were 58,760 starts on apprenticeships at levels 6 and 7, that is 74.4% growth in 2020/21 compared to 2018/19.</p><p>Our apprenticeship reforms have put employers firmly in the driving seat and a market led approach ensures that apprenticeships are responsive to business needs both in terms of the content of the apprenticeship and availability. Employers take the decisions about who they recruit as an apprentice, and which type and level of apprenticeship they offer.</p><p>Employers, working in partnership with providers, have already developed over 150 apprenticeship standards available at levels 6 and 7, of which over 100 include a degree. As these are jobs with training, they directly address skills shortages for employers. They are available in a wide range of sectors such as aerospace, automotive, digital, engineering, financial, health, leadership, legal, manufacturing, nuclear and protective services.</p><p>Higher and degree apprenticeships support productivity, social mobility and widening participation in higher education and employment. So, whilst we have seen positive growth of degree apprenticeships, we would like to see even more.</p><p>We continue to encourage more employers to consider using these apprenticeships to meet the skills needs of their industries. Education providers, including universities, have a vital role to play in working with employers to offer these apprenticeships wherever there is employer demand.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 10/01/2022 13:45:01 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart attachment 1 file name 94475_apprenticeship_starts.xls title 94475_table
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1388664

registered interest
date	16/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Arts and Humanities: Degrees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the contribution of arts and humanities degrees to the UK economy.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	94476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2022 answer text <p>The government values high-quality provision in a range of subjects, including in the creative arts and humanities, that lead to positive outcomes critical for both our economy and society.</p><p>A variety of data is published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and the department on the contributions graduates make to the UK economy disaggregated by their subject of study.</p><p>HESA publishes details of graduates’ employment and further study, industry, occupation, and salary fifteen months after leaving higher education in the ‘Higher Education Graduate Outcomes’ survey. Latest statistics refer to graduates who left their courses in 2018/19 and are available here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/graduates" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/graduates</a>.</p><p>Graduate employment and further study by subject area is available here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb260/figure-10" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb260/figure-10</a>.</p><p>Industry of employment is available to view here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb260/figure-11" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb260/figure-11</a>.</p><p>Occupation of employment is available to view here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb260/figure-12" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb260/figure-12</a>.</p><p>Salary is available to view here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/graduates/table-25" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/graduates/table-25</a>.</p><p>The department publishes employment and earnings statistics one, three, five and ten years after graduation in ‘Graduate Outcomes’. Latest statistics refer to the financial year 2018/19 and are available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/graduate-outcomes-leo/2018-19" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/graduate-outcomes-leo/2018-19</a>.</p><p>Subject information is included in Tables 6 and 18, available to view here: <a href="https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/releases/e9c9770d-3c30-4708-8cd9-6e123966f070/files/ce665e1c-4f8a-447d-e169-08d8ee096a35" target="_blank">https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/releases/e9c9770d-3c30-4708-8cd9-6e123966f070/files/ce665e1c-4f8a-447d-e169-08d8ee096a35</a> and here: <a href="https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/releases/e9c9770d-3c30-4708-8cd9-6e123966f070/files/52c26406-04c3-4ea9-e16e-08d8ee096a35" target="_blank">https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/releases/e9c9770d-3c30-4708-8cd9-6e123966f070/files/52c26406-04c3-4ea9-e16e-08d8ee096a35</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 94477 question first answered 07/01/2022 16:51:37 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1388665

registered interest
date	16/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	History: Graduates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the contribution of history graduates to the UK economy.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	94477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2022 answer text <p>The government values high-quality provision in a range of subjects, including in the creative arts and humanities, that lead to positive outcomes critical for both our economy and society.</p><p>A variety of data is published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and the department on the contributions graduates make to the UK economy disaggregated by their subject of study.</p><p>HESA publishes details of graduates’ employment and further study, industry, occupation, and salary fifteen months after leaving higher education in the ‘Higher Education Graduate Outcomes’ survey. Latest statistics refer to graduates who left their courses in 2018/19 and are available here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/graduates" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/graduates</a>.</p><p>Graduate employment and further study by subject area is available here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb260/figure-10" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb260/figure-10</a>.</p><p>Industry of employment is available to view here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb260/figure-11" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb260/figure-11</a>.</p><p>Occupation of employment is available to view here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb260/figure-12" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb260/figure-12</a>.</p><p>Salary is available to view here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/graduates/table-25" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/graduates/table-25</a>.</p><p>The department publishes employment and earnings statistics one, three, five and ten years after graduation in ‘Graduate Outcomes’. Latest statistics refer to the financial year 2018/19 and are available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/graduate-outcomes-leo/2018-19" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/graduate-outcomes-leo/2018-19</a>.</p><p>Subject information is included in Tables 6 and 18, available to view here: <a href="https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/releases/e9c9770d-3c30-4708-8cd9-6e123966f070/files/ce665e1c-4f8a-447d-e169-08d8ee096a35" target="_blank">https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/releases/e9c9770d-3c30-4708-8cd9-6e123966f070/files/ce665e1c-4f8a-447d-e169-08d8ee096a35</a> and here: <a href="https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/releases/e9c9770d-3c30-4708-8cd9-6e123966f070/files/52c26406-04c3-4ea9-e16e-08d8ee096a35" target="_blank">https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/releases/e9c9770d-3c30-4708-8cd9-6e123966f070/files/52c26406-04c3-4ea9-e16e-08d8ee096a35</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 94476 question first answered 07/01/2022 16:51:37 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1388667

registered interest
date	16/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Turing Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the value of the bid put in by Capita to obtain the contract to run the Turing Scheme was.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	94478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>The Turing Scheme has made funding available for more than 41,000 students from schools, colleges and universities to go on study and work placements in over 150 destinations across the world this academic year. The government has also confirmed funding for the continuation of the Turing Scheme for the next 3 years, including £110 million for the 2022/23 academic year.</p><p>A competitive procurement exercise was conducted to appoint a delivery partner for the Turing Scheme from 1 April 2022. Two compliant bids were received for the contract to run the Turing Scheme. Following a robust procurement process, Capita’s bid was considered to be the highest in quality. The value of Capita’s bid was £6,271,155, which was the lowest bid in monetary value in this procurement.</p><p>As with all contracts, we will actively manage it at an operational and strategic level and should concerns arise, our contracts contain provisions and remedies to deal with them swiftly and effectively.</p><p>UK education providers who have successfully applied for funding may use the Turing Scheme funding to support mobilities for any of their students, regardless of study subject.</p><p>Statistics on actual participation in the scheme will be available after the end of the first year of the programme. The COVID-19 outbreak has had a significant effect on mobilities with some institutions choosing to delay their students’ placements. Statistics on participation in ERASMUS+ are published by the European Union: <a href="https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/resources-and-tools/statistics-and-factsheets" target="_blank">https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/resources-and-tools/statistics-and-factsheets</a>.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 94480 94481 94482 question first answered 11/01/2022 15:34:10 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1388043

registered interest
date	15/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academic Freedom
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of provisions in the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill on the protection by higher education providers of academics' freedom of speech.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	93854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2022 answer text <p>This Bill includes a range of measures aimed at strengthening existing legislation on freedom of speech and academic freedom for academic staff in higher education in England.</p><p>The Bill is also clear that the job security of university staff should not be undermined by the expression of lawful speech, including where they may question and test received wisdom, and put forward new ideas and controversial or unpopular opinions.</p><p>The Bill does not amend existing employment law. However, it does provide a route to redress where an individual may not have clear contractual protections in place in respect of freedom of speech and academic freedom. Rather than having to rely on contractual protections in an employment tribunal, an academic member of staff will now have access to the Office for Students (OfS) complaints scheme, as well as the right to bring a claim in the courts via the new statutory tort.</p><p>The new complaints scheme will be overseen by a Director of Free Speech and Academic Freedom, who will also be responsible for overseeing the performance of all the OfS’s new functions. This includes promoting the importance of freedom of speech within the law and academic freedom for academic staff, as well as the monitoring and enforcement of freedom of speech registration conditions and the new duties on students’ unions of Approved (fee cap) providers.</p><p>The OfS will also issue guidance for providers and students’ unions to as they develop the new regulatory framework and complaints scheme, thereby helping them to comply with their duties.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 07/01/2022 12:22:45 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1388113

registered interest
date	15/12/2021
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, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the funding of the higher education system is protected against increasing inflation.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	93855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2022 answer text <p>The government is committed to a sustainable funding model for higher education (HE) that supports high-quality provision, meets the skills needs of the country and maintains the world-class reputation of our HE sector, while sharing its costs fairly between graduates and the general taxpayer.</p><p>Tuition fee levels must ensure that universities continue to be properly funded, while representing value for money for students and taxpayers, not all of whom will have wanted to go to university. Maximum tuition fees for standard full-time courses will remain at £9,250 for the 2022/23 academic year. This will be the fifth year in succession that maximum fees have been frozen, providing better value for students and keeping the cost of HE under control.</p><p>Since 2012, total income for universities in England has increased by around £7.4 billion in real terms. Income from tuition fees is augmented by the Strategic Priorities Grant, which is paid directly to providers, and totals £1.4 billion in academic year 2021/22. On 19 January 2021, the former Secretary of State for Education wrote to the Office for Students (OfS), setting out his priorities for reform of the Strategic Priorities Grant for the 21/22 academic year. These reforms include the reallocation of high-cost subject funding, towards the provision of high-cost subjects that support the NHS and wider healthcare policy, high-cost STEM subjects, and subjects meeting specific labour market needs. As a result, the total funding for high-cost subjects, such as medicine, engineering and other high-cost subjects, is 12% (£81 million) higher in the 2021/22 academic year compared to 2020/21.</p><p>Students from the lowest income families have access to the largest ever amounts of living costs support in cash terms. Maximum grants and loans for living costs, which are a contribution towards a student’s living costs while attending a university, have been increased by 3.1% for the current 2021/22 academic year, with a further 2.3% increase announced for 2022/23. Annual increases in maintenance support from government are based on inflation forecasts for the first quarter of the calendar year after the start of the academic year (using the All Items Retail Prices Index less mortgage interest payments (RPI-X) measure) provided by the Office for Budget Responsibility.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 93856 93859 question first answered 06/01/2022 16:57:15 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1388114

registered interest
date	15/12/2021
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, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of rising inflation on the funding of the higher education system since student fees were capped at £9250.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	93856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2022 answer text <p>The government is committed to a sustainable funding model for higher education (HE) that supports high-quality provision, meets the skills needs of the country and maintains the world-class reputation of our HE sector, while sharing its costs fairly between graduates and the general taxpayer.</p><p>Tuition fee levels must ensure that universities continue to be properly funded, while representing value for money for students and taxpayers, not all of whom will have wanted to go to university. Maximum tuition fees for standard full-time courses will remain at £9,250 for the 2022/23 academic year. This will be the fifth year in succession that maximum fees have been frozen, providing better value for students and keeping the cost of HE under control.</p><p>Since 2012, total income for universities in England has increased by around £7.4 billion in real terms. Income from tuition fees is augmented by the Strategic Priorities Grant, which is paid directly to providers, and totals £1.4 billion in academic year 2021/22. On 19 January 2021, the former Secretary of State for Education wrote to the Office for Students (OfS), setting out his priorities for reform of the Strategic Priorities Grant for the 21/22 academic year. These reforms include the reallocation of high-cost subject funding, towards the provision of high-cost subjects that support the NHS and wider healthcare policy, high-cost STEM subjects, and subjects meeting specific labour market needs. As a result, the total funding for high-cost subjects, such as medicine, engineering and other high-cost subjects, is 12% (£81 million) higher in the 2021/22 academic year compared to 2020/21.</p><p>Students from the lowest income families have access to the largest ever amounts of living costs support in cash terms. Maximum grants and loans for living costs, which are a contribution towards a student’s living costs while attending a university, have been increased by 3.1% for the current 2021/22 academic year, with a further 2.3% increase announced for 2022/23. Annual increases in maintenance support from government are based on inflation forecasts for the first quarter of the calendar year after the start of the academic year (using the All Items Retail Prices Index less mortgage interest payments (RPI-X) measure) provided by the Office for Budget Responsibility.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 93855 93859 question first answered 06/01/2022 16:57:15 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1388115

registered interest
date	15/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made the number of fraudulent loans given out by the Student Loans Company.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	93857
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2022 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company (SLC) provide quarterly fraud reporting figures to the department, which are then reported to the Cabinet Office as part of the GOV-13 Counter Fraud Functional Standard. In the 2020/21 financial year SLC identified 136 cases of a full or partial loss to fraud relating to a loan in the same year, paid through Student Finance England.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 07/01/2022 12:15:16 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1388116

registered interest
date	15/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made through financial modelling of the effect of different interest rates on (a) the size of future debt, (b) students’ ability to repay and (c) the size of the total loan debt arising from student loans.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	93858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2022 answer text <p>The student loan system in England removes financial barriers for those hoping to study higher education while sharing its costs between learners and the general taxpayer. The loans offer unique protections to borrowers. During and after study, interest rates are capped so that they do not exceed the prevailing market rate for comparable personal loans. After finishing study, monthly repayments are only required when a borrower is earning over the repayment threshold, currently £27,295 per year, or its weekly or monthly equivalent for Plan 2 (post-2012) loans and do not change based on rates or the amount borrowed. Any outstanding debt is written off after the loan term ends at no detriment to the borrower.</p><p>As student loan repayments are income contingent, the impact of the repayment threshold and repayment conditions on students with particular protected characteristics depends on the earnings of those borrowers in each year over the loan term. The department publishes annual data on graduate employment and earnings by years after graduation, including by ethnicity, through the Graduate Outcomes publication which can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/graduate-outcomes-leo/2018-19" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/graduate-outcomes-leo/2018-19</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Regular assessments of the student finance system, including forecasts of future loan outlay, repayments and the size of the loan book, are made and published annually. The most recent publication can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2020-to-2021</a>. This publication notes that the Resource Accounting and Budget (RAB) charge the proportion of loan outlay that is expected to not be repaid when future repayments are valued in present terms, was estimated to be 53% for loans issued to full-time undergraduates in the 2020-21 financial year. The interest rate adds to the total amount of repayments received, and for the 2020-21 loans, the department estimates that repayments due to interest reduces the RAB charge by 4 percentage points.</p><p> </p><p>Potential reforms to student loan terms, with the goal of decreasing the public subsidy on student loans while preserving the income-contingent nature of the current system, were modelled as part of the work done by the independent panel which reported to the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding. We are carefully considering a range of options to ensure that student finance continues to deliver value for money for both students and the taxpayer as we continue to consider the recommendations made by the independent panel. The interim conclusion was published on 21 January 2021, and we plan to set out a conclusion to the review in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 93860 93861 93862 question first answered 07/01/2022 12:15:45 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1388117

registered interest
date	15/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the purchasing power of the maximum amount of undergraduate maintenance loan.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	93859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2022 answer text <p>The government is committed to a sustainable funding model for higher education (HE) that supports high-quality provision, meets the skills needs of the country and maintains the world-class reputation of our HE sector, while sharing its costs fairly between graduates and the general taxpayer.</p><p>Tuition fee levels must ensure that universities continue to be properly funded, while representing value for money for students and taxpayers, not all of whom will have wanted to go to university. Maximum tuition fees for standard full-time courses will remain at £9,250 for the 2022/23 academic year. This will be the fifth year in succession that maximum fees have been frozen, providing better value for students and keeping the cost of HE under control.</p><p>Since 2012, total income for universities in England has increased by around £7.4 billion in real terms. Income from tuition fees is augmented by the Strategic Priorities Grant, which is paid directly to providers, and totals £1.4 billion in academic year 2021/22. On 19 January 2021, the former Secretary of State for Education wrote to the Office for Students (OfS), setting out his priorities for reform of the Strategic Priorities Grant for the 21/22 academic year. These reforms include the reallocation of high-cost subject funding, towards the provision of high-cost subjects that support the NHS and wider healthcare policy, high-cost STEM subjects, and subjects meeting specific labour market needs. As a result, the total funding for high-cost subjects, such as medicine, engineering and other high-cost subjects, is 12% (£81 million) higher in the 2021/22 academic year compared to 2020/21.</p><p>Students from the lowest income families have access to the largest ever amounts of living costs support in cash terms. Maximum grants and loans for living costs, which are a contribution towards a student’s living costs while attending a university, have been increased by 3.1% for the current 2021/22 academic year, with a further 2.3% increase announced for 2022/23. Annual increases in maintenance support from government are based on inflation forecasts for the first quarter of the calendar year after the start of the academic year (using the All Items Retail Prices Index less mortgage interest payments (RPI-X) measure) provided by the Office for Budget Responsibility.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 93855 93856 question first answered 06/01/2022 16:57:15 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western