Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many institutions in England (a) held and (b) were granted taught degree awarding powers in each year since 2006.

Based on the information available to us, there were 103 institutions in England that held taught degree awarding powers in 2006. The number of such awards in each year since then is as follows:

2007 – 7

2008 - 2

2009 - 6

2010 - 0

2011 - 0

2012 - 3

2013 - 1

2014 - 2

2015 - 3

2016 - 3 (as of 5 September 2016)