In Parliament…

9 September 2025

James Naish MP

Backbench Business Committee

Oral Evidence: Proposal for a debate on the "Potential merits of a statutory duty of care for universities"

17 June 2025

James Naish MP

Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the independent report entitled National review of higher education student suicide deaths, published on 21 May 2025, whether she plans to introduce a duty of candour for the higher education sector.

9 June 2025

Tulip Siddiq MP

Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of statutory codification of the duty of care to students in higher education.

5 June 2025

Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP

Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the legal framework on the duty of care owed by (a) higher education institutions and (b) associated students’ unions to students.

15 May 2025

Warinder Juss MP

Q. Will the Leader of the House [Lucy Powell] please meet me and the director of student life and designated safeguarding lead at the University of Wolverhampton in my constituency to discuss and clarify what duties and responsibilities universities have towards their students’ health and wellbeing?

12 February 2025

James McMurdock MP

Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of potential implications for her policies of the proportion of university students who leave their university courses early due to mental health issues.

12 February 2025

James McMurdock MP

Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help reduce the suicide rate amongst male university students.

31 January 2025

Ben Macpherson MSP

Q. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider introducing a statutory duty of care for higher education institutions.

15 January 2025

Ian Sollom MP

Q. Would the Secretary of State consider taking a more meaningful step to ensure that students are safe, welcome and protected at universities by giving higher education institutions a statutory duty of care for their students?

13 January 2025

Munira Wilson MP

Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a suicide prevention strategy aimed at (a) school and (b) university students.

19 December 2024

James Naish MP

Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will meet with representatives of the ForThe100 to discuss the duty of care owed by higher education providers to their students.

19 December 2024

James Naish MP

Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to (a) help clarify the duty of care owed by higher education providers to their students and (b) to ensure such standards are met.

26 November 2024

Helen Grant MP

Q. Will the Minister [Shephen Kinnock] meet me and members of the LEARN Network and ForThe100 to discuss the introduction of a statutory duty of care for all higher education providers?

23 October 2024

Janet Finch-Saunders MS

Q. What steps is the Cabinet Secretary [Jeremy Miles] taking to ensure that support is accessible to university students with suicidal thoughts?

22 July 2024

Layla Moran MP

Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to help improve mental health practice in universities.

22 July 2024

Layla Moran MP

Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is her Department's policy that universities should have a statutory duty of care to students.

11 September 2023

Tim Farron

Early Day Motion 1597:

University duty of care

5 July 2023

Helen Hayes MP

Q. One of my constituents, who was a first-year university student, tragically took his own life in May... Will the Deputy Prime Minister support my call...

21 June 2023

Tim Farron

Private Members' Presentation Bill 3478:

Higher Education (Duty of Care) Bill

12 June 2023

Darren Henry MP

Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take with the higher education sector to reduce the suicide rate for students?

5 June 2023

Westminster Hall

E-petition debate on the duty of care for students in higher education

2 June 2023

Tobias Ellwood MP

Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to legislate for an additional statutory duty of care for students in higher education..

16 May 2023

Petitions Committee

Oral evidence: A statutory duty of care for higher education students, HC 1343

18 April 2023

Dr Rupa Huq MP

Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a statutory duty of care for higher education institutions on student (a) mental health, (b) safety and (c) well-being.

27 March 2023

Matt Western MP

Q.To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the legal basis is for a general duty of care on higher education providers to deliver educational and pastoral services.

27 March 2023

Matt Western MP

Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of establishing a statutory duty of care on higher education providers.

23 January 2023

James Morris MP

Q. To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a statutory duty of care for higher education institutions to students aged 18 and over.

5 September 2022

Twenty-five Bereaved Families

E-Petition 622847:

Create statutory legal duty of care for students in Higher Education

1 July 2019

Kate Green MP

Q. In the case of a student suicide at university, no redress is available to the family if they have concerns about the welfare support that the student received. [...] May I ask the Minister...