{"value":{"id":1315212,"askingMemberId":4769,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2021-05-17T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2021-05-19T00:00:00","uin":"2452","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many respondents to the Office for Students consultation on recurrent funding for 2021-22 (a) supported and (b) opposed the withdrawal of the targeted allocation for students attending courses in London.","answeringBodyId":60,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Education","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4530,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2021-05-25T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>We have asked the Office for Students (OfS) to reform the Strategic Priorities Grant for the 2021-22 financial year. These reforms include the re-allocation of high-cost subject funding towards the provision of high-cost subjects that support the NHS and wider healthcare policy, high-cost science, technology, mathematics and engineering subjects, and subjects meeting specific labour market needs, as well as the removal of the London Weighting element of the Strategic Priorities Grant.</p><p>The OfS has publicly consulted on these proposals, and responses from universities, students and others will be taken into account before any final decisions on allocations are made.</p><p>The OfS is analysing the responses to the consultation and will respond in due course.</p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Students: Greater London","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1315212","method":"GET"}]}