Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of students who have reported incidents of sexual harassment or threat in each of the last five years.

In September 2015, Universities UK was asked by Government to set up a sexual violence and harassment taskforce. The Taskforce reported its findings in October 2016 in the report ‘Changing the Culture’.

The Taskforce’s report draws on the available data and evidence to make a series of recommendations on preventing and responding to sexual harassment. The Taskforce report establishes there is no single source of data on the levels of sexual harassment on University campuses. The Taskforce plans to establish more baseline evidence on this issue and report later this year.