Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what measures the Government plans to introduce to regulate pay increases granted by internal remuneration bodies to Chancellors and Vice Chancellors of universities.

Universities are autonomous bodies and it is for them to determine pay arrangements for their staff. However the Government said in the 2016 Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) grant letter that,

“it is clear that efficiency includes demonstrating restraint in senior pay and remains concerned about the substantial upwards drift of the salaries of some top management.

We would like to see leaders in the sector exercise much greater restraint”.