Question follow-through · 65890

Students: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the average weekly cost of (a) student accommodation, (b) food and (c) living for university students in the latest period for which data is available.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 8 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 11 Jul 2025
Answer: 17 Jul 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

8 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the average weekly cost of (a) student accommodation, (b) food and (c) living for university students in the latest period for which data is available.
11 Jul 2025
Target answer date
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17 Jul 2025
Answer published
The latest Student Income and Expenditure Survey for 2021/22 collects data on income and expenditure across the academic year, assumed to be 39 weeks.In the 2021/22 academic year, full-time undergraduate students’ total median living costs were £5,841 inc...

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