Peer raises ‘very adverse effect’ of cutting London weighting

Lords hear of financial impact of cuts to the London weighting in university teaching grant

The government has highlighted the “significant support” it has given to higher education during the Covid-19 pandemic after a university chancellor told the House of Lords that the removal of London weighting from the teaching grant was “having a very adverse effect” financially.

During questions in the House of Lords on 8 February, Paul Yaw Boateng, a Labour peer and chancellor of the University of Greenwich, said the government’s decision to scrap the London weighting in teaching grant allocations was “having a very adverse effect on our financial viability”.