Question follow-through · 111593
Higher Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of funding undergraduate courses that do not lead to sustained graduate-level employment.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 16 Feb 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of funding undergraduate courses that do not lead to sustained graduate-level employment.
10 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Feb 2026
Answer published
All first-degree subjects typically lead to high rates of sustained employment, with Longitudinal Education Outcomes data showing that the proportion of graduates in “sustained employment with or without further study” five years after graduation ranges f...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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