Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the value was of the block grant to England’s higher education institutions in 2019-20.

In the academic year 2019/20, the Office for Students distributed £1.3 billion of funding to higher education providers via the teaching grant. The majority of this was allocated via the recurrent teaching grant to fund high-cost courses and specialist providers and to support student access and success for particular student groups. A further £100 million was provided as capital funding in the academic year 2019/20.