Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to support the Civic University Network.

The government supports and is grateful for the key role universities play as anchor institutions within their locality, and of their importance to the economic, social, and cultural wellbeing needs of the surrounding community. In the financial year 2020-21, the department provided grant funding of £50,000 towards establishing the peer-led Civic University Network. This helped to increase the quality and sustainability of civic engagement through the creation of Civic University Agreements.