Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the value for money of the average salary received by University Vice-Chancellors.
Universities are autonomous institutions but they receive significant amounts of public funding, so they are subject to public scrutiny.
The government has set up the regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), to regulate the higher education sector. Universities are now required to publish the justification for salaries of their Vice-Chancellors, and the OfS has powers to take action if universities do not do this.