Consultation outcome

Office for Students: monetary and financial penalties

• From: Department for Education and Office for Students
• Published: 14 December 2017
• Last updated: 22 March 2018 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Office for Students: monetary and financial penalties, government response

Ref: DFE-00073-2018

PDF, 270 KB, 23 pages

Detail of outcome

Summary of responses we received, along with the government’s response outlining the next steps.

These related responses are also available:

• Office for Students: regulatory framework for higher education consultation response
• Office for Students: registration fees (stage 2) consultation response

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Original consultation

Summary

We are seeking views on the monetary and financial penalties the Office for Students (OfS) may impose on registered higher education providers.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
2pm on 14 December 2017 to 11:45pm on 9 February 2018

Consultation description

We are consulting on the:

• proposed maximum monetary penalty the OfS may impose for breach of an ongoing registration condition
• matters (mandatory factors) the Secretary of State should require the OfS to consider (or not consider) when imposing a monetary penalty
• approach to financial penalties for late payment of OfS registration fees and other fees, including the penalty amount and interest charged

Published 14 December 2017
Last updated 22 March 2018 + show all updates

1. 22 March 2018

   Added the government response.

2. 14 December 2017

   First published.