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Question for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

UIN 228325, tabled on 19 March 2015

Question

Pamela Nash
Labour
Airdrie and Shotts
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to paragraph 1.179 of Budget 2015, what estimate he has made of how many PhD and post-graduate students in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland will receive the proposed financial support in each of the next five years.

Answer

Greg Clark
Conservative
Tunbridge Wells
Commons

Answered on

26 March 2015

We are consulting on how best to implement the policy as part of a wider review into how to broaden and strengthen support for postgraduate researchers. We will be working with employers, universities and students to make sure the scheme meets the most pressing needs.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency collects and publishes data on student entrants, enrolments and qualifiers at UK Higher Education Institutions.

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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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