Further Education

Education written question – answered at on 10 April 2014.

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Photo of Stephen Timms Stephen Timms Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will visit further education colleges to discuss the effect of his proposed 17.5 per cent reduction from September for funding for 18-year-olds in full-time education.

Photo of Elizabeth Truss Elizabeth Truss The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education

I have received a large number of invitations to discuss this topic and sadly cannot accept nearly as many as I would like to.

Nevertheless, I have listened to the views of the hon. and right hon. Members, as well as those of colleges and other providers of 16 to 19 education. I am pleased that we have been able to afford to mitigate the impact of the funding reduction on 18-year-olds in the academic year 2014/15. We will cap any losses in relation to this at 2% of the funding that an institution receives for the education of 16 to 19-year-olds.

However, the overriding need to tackle the budget deficit remains, and so the full funding reduction for 18-year-olds will still be necessary in 2015/16. We have carried out and published an impact assessment, which is available online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-reduction-for-18-year-olds-impact-assessment

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