Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to allocate additional funding for universities to help meet the increase in the Teachers' Pension Scheme contribution rate from September 2019.

The department intends to provide state-funded schools and further education providers with funding to help meet the increase in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme for the financial year 2019-20 and will be consulting to understand the effects of the increase on all other sectors, including higher education providers. Funding from 2020-21 onwards will be considered as part of the next Spending Review.