Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the open letter sent by the Minister of State for Higher and Further Education to Ukrainian students on 27 April 2022, what criteria his Department plans to use to distribute the £4 million of additional funding being made available to universities to support Ukrainian students.

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education and I have asked the Office for Students’ (OfS) to use up to £4 million of funding in the 2022/23 financial year, through the Strategic Priorities Grant, for English higher education providers to support Ukrainian nationals and Ukrainian-domiciled students whose usual financial support has been impacted by events in Ukraine.

The process for dispersing this funding to providers can be found in guidance set out by the OfS, found here: https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/regulation/information-for-providers-on-the-crisis-in-ukraine/funding-to-support-ukrainian-students/.