Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of academic posts at higher education institutions in the UK which are directly funded from EU sources; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes statistics on staff employed at UK higher education institutions (HEIs). Latest statistics refer to the 2015/16 academic year and are published at the following link:
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/19-01-2017/sfr243-staff.
Analysis of HESA’s Staff Record shows that, of the 201,380 Full-Person Equivalent members of academic staff at UK Higher Education Institutions in the 2015/16 academic year, the basic salary of 7,230 academic staff was funded fully or in part from EU sources.
Asked by: Ian Murray (Labour - Edinburgh South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to commit to maintaining funding for Scottish and UK higher education institutions from EU sources at or above current levels after the UK leaves the EU.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
The Government has confirmed that HM Treasury will underwrite the payment of Horizon 2020 awards, even when projects continue beyond the UK’s exit from the EU. HM Treasury has also guaranteed structural and investment fund projects signed before the UK leaves the EU, as long as they provide strong value for money and are in line with domestic strategic priorities.
Decisions on both funding for higher education institutions and access to Erasmus+ following the UK’s exit from the EU will be considered as part of wider discussions about the UK’s relationship with the EU.
Asked by: Thangam Debbonaire (Labour - Bristol West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that UK universities remain globally competitive after the UK leaves the EU.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
UK universities are home to both world-class teaching and life-changing research, and exiting the EU will not change this. The Government has already announced that EU students applying for a place at an English university or further education institution in 2017/2018 (or before) will continue to be eligible for student loans and grants for the duration of their course, even if the UK exits the EU during that period. To support research and innovation, we have also announced that HM Treasury will underwrite funding for approved Horizon 2020 projects applied for before the UK leaves the EU, including where specific projects continue beyond the UK’s departure.
Future arrangements for EU students and staff, funding and also UK students studying abroad will need to be considered as part of wider discussions about the UK’s relationship with the EU. The Government is fully committed to ensuring that we get the best possible outcome for the higher education sector from its negotiations with the EU.
Asked by: Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total amount of public money spent on maintenance fees individual students received by studying at the Greenwich School of Management in the academic years 2014–15 and 2015–16.
Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Information on student support for students from England studying in the UK, and students from the EU studying in England, is published by the Student Loans Company (SLC) in the annual Statistical First Release Student Support for Higher Education in England (SFR). This can be found at: http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx
Provisional data included in the Supplementary Tables to the SFR shows that students studying at the Greenwich School of Management in 2014/15 received a total of £21 million in Tuition Fee Loan payments, £32.7 million in Maintenance Loans and £26.1 million in Grants (including Maintenance Grants and other grants such as the Disabled Students Allowance).
Final data for the academic year 2014/15 and provisional data for the academic year 2015/16 will be published by the SLC on 30 November 2016.
Asked by: Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much public money was spent on tuition fees in the form of bursaries for individuals studying at the Greenwich School of Management in the academic years 2014–15 and 2015–16.
Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Information on student support for students from England studying in the UK, and students from the EU studying in England, is published by the Student Loans Company (SLC) in the annual Statistical First Release Student Support for Higher Education in England (SFR). This can be found at: http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx
Provisional data included in the Supplementary Tables to the SFR shows that students studying at the Greenwich School of Management in 2014/15 received a total of £21 million in Tuition Fee Loan payments, £32.7 million in Maintenance Loans and £26.1 million in Grants (including Maintenance Grants and other grants such as the Disabled Students Allowance).
Final data for the academic year 2014/15 and provisional data for the academic year 2015/16 will be published by the SLC on 30 November 2016.
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what steps he is taking to ensure that the UK leaving the EU does not have a deleterious effect on the operation of UK universities; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Robin Walker
The Department for Exiting the EU has engaged with a number of higher education institutions and groups including Universities UK and Royal Academies. Over the next few months the department will continue to engage with key stakeholders in business and civil society, including universities, through a series of roundtables, bi-laterals and visits across the UK.
We have been clear that we want to create an environment in which the UK as a whole can continue to be a world leader in research, science and the tertiary education sector more broadly. The government has already announced that UK researchers can still apply for Horizon 2020 projects and the Treasury will underwrite the payment of such awards, even when specific projects continue beyond the UK’s departure from the EU. Equally, EU students applying for a place at an English university or further education institution in the 2017 to 2018 academic year will continue to be eligible for student loans and grants – and will be for the duration of their course.
Asked by: Jim Cunningham (Labour - Coventry South)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what representations he has received from universities on the effect of the UK leaving the EU on those institutions; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Robin Walker
The Department for Exiting the EU has engaged with a number of higher education institutions and groups including Universities UK and Royal Academies. Over the next few months the department will continue to engage with key stakeholders in business and civil society, including universities, through a series of roundtables, bi-laterals and visits across the UK.
We have been clear that we want to create an environment in which the UK as a whole can continue to be a world leader in research, science and the tertiary education sector more broadly. The government has already announced that UK researchers can still apply for Horizon 2020 projects and the Treasury will underwrite the payment of such awards, even when specific projects continue beyond the UK’s departure from the EU. Equally, EU students applying for a place at an English university or further education institution in the 2017 to 2018 academic year will continue to be eligible for student loans and grants – and will be for the duration of their course.
Asked by: Baroness Clark of Kilwinning (Labour - Life peer)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much the Government spent on full-time university education for undergraduates in 2013-14.
Answered by Lord Willetts
Full-time undergraduate student support expenditure by the Student Loans Company for the 2013-14 financial year included £8.9bn of cash outlay on maintenance and fee loans and £1.9bn of grant expenditure (on maintenance grants and other allowances). These totals include expenditure on English-domiciled students in the UK and EU students in England.
For the financial year 2013-14, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) estimate that £2.1bn of the expenditure set out in the 2014 grant letter refers to teaching grant for full-time undergraduate study. It is not possible to calculate a full-time undergraduate share of every element of recurrent teaching grant such as Senior Professional pay, teaching strategy funding, institution-specific initiatives or additional funding for Equivalent Level Qualifications and vulnerable science subjects.
The figures do not include expenditure by other Governments departments.