Question follow-through · 108145
Graduates: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of recent graduates entering non-graduate roles on a) career and b) earning progression.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 23 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 27 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 2 Feb 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of recent graduates entering non-graduate roles on a) career and b) earning progression.
27 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Feb 2026
Answer published
Research suggests the majority of graduates are expected to earn a positive financial return from higher education (HE) over their lifetime.The latest HE Statistics Agency data shows that 71.4% of UK-domiciled graduates from 2022/23 in employment were in ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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