Question follow-through · 84101
Universities: Admissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has provided funding to universities for schemes that exclude white applicants.
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
- 21 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 10 Nov 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has provided funding to universities for schemes that exclude white applicants.
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Nov 2025
Answer published
The department has not directly awarded funding to any such schemes within higher education.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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