Question follow-through · 81433
Universities: Cost Effectiveness
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve the assessment of the value for money of Government funding for universities.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve the assessment of the value for money of Government funding for universities.
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2025
Answer published
The government has commissioned the Institute for Fiscal Studies to update their 2020 research report on the impact of undergraduate degrees on lifetime earnings, and this will be published in early 2026.The 2020 research suggests that higher education (H...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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