Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect on jobs of the decision not to increase funding for higher education institutions with increased pension costs as a result of changes to public sector pensions at (a) Portsmouth University and (b) higher education institutions across the UK.

I refer the hon. Member for Portsmouth South to the answer given by the former Minister of State (Jo Johnson), my right hon. Friend for Orpington on 8 August 2019 to 281106.