Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to write to the Office for Students to provide the regulator additional guidance for the remainder of financial year 2022-23.

The department’s priorities for higher education are consistent with those set out in guidance to the Office for Students (OfS) earlier this year. This includes a continued focus on delivering the government’s skills mission, driving up quality and ensuring equality of opportunity and real social mobility for students.

The department will issue the OfS with new guidance for the current financial year if new issues or priorities emerge and will keep this under review.