white paper

Any fee increases in England would be announced by the Department for Education, which is due to publish its higher education white paper this autumn.

The government previously said it inherited a system "left on its knees" and is due to set out its plans for reform in a white paper in October.

In her memoir, Sturgeon claimed that her predecessor was opposed to gay marriage and that he did not read the entirety of his government's white paper on Scottish independence, published before the 2014 referendum.

A key period in the lead-up to the poll was her preparation, as deputy first minister, of a white paper setting out the case for independence.

She claimed Salmond did not fully read the Scottish government's white paper Scotland's Future, which set out its plans for setting up an independent state.