Paul Blomfield – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Blomfield on 2016-09-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many institutions in England (a) held and (b) were granted taught degree awarding powers in each year since 2006.

Joseph Johnson

Based on the information available to us, there were 103 institutions in England that held taught degree awarding powers in 2006. The number of such awards in each year since then is as follows:

2007 – 7

2008 – 2

2009 – 6

2010 – 0

2011 – 0

2012 – 3

2013 – 1

2014 – 2

2015 – 3

2016 – 3 (as of 5 September 2016)