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Universities: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role her Department has in facilitating agreements between financially distressed universities and their commercial lenders.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
15 Jul 2025
Target answer date
17 Jul 2025
Answer
22 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role her Department has in facilitating agreements between financially distressed universities and their commercial lenders.

  2. 17 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The Office for Students (OfS) has not facilitated debt restructuring packages of any university since 2018.Universities are independent from government and as such are responsible for managing their finances. This includes negotiations with commercial len...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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