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Higher Education: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to (a) improve university access for students from underrepresented backgrounds and (b) tackle financial barriers faced by such students.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 22 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 24 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 31 Jul 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to (a) improve university access for students from underrepresented backgrounds and (b) tackle financial barriers faced by such students.
24 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Jul 2024
Answer published
The government will support the aspiration of every person who meets the requirements and wants to go to university, regardless of their background.Too many people across our country do not get the opportunity to succeed. The government will act to change...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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