Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the proposals in his Department's White Paper, Success as a knowledge economy: teaching excellence, social mobility and student choice, published on 16 May 2016, on the number of new providers in the higher education sector by 2020.

The Higher Education and Research Bill Impact Assessment, published alongside the Bill, details the Government’s assessment of the expected number of HE providers following the reforms. The full forecast is provided in Annex A of the document, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/higher-education-and-research-bill-impact-assessment .