Innovation, Universities and Skills written question – answered at on 28 April 2009.
David Evennett
Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills)
To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many further education colleges have merged in each year since 1997.
Siôn Simon
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
The table sets out all further education colleges merged since May 1997.
| Further education college mergers since 1997 | ||
| Further education colleges | Name of merged college | Date of merger |
| Reading College of Arts and Technology and Berkshire College of Art and Design | Reading College of Arts and Technology | 6 January 1997 |
| De La Salle College and Pendleton College | Pendleton College | 7 February 1997 |
| Prior Pursglove College and South Park Sixth Form College | Prior Pursglove College | 1 August 1997 |
| Worcestershire College of Agriculture and Horticulture and Pershore College of Horticulture | Pershore and Hindlip College | 10 May 1997 |
| Hyde Clarendon College and Tameside College | Tameside College | 18 February 1998 |
| Airedale and Wharfedale College and Park Lane College | Park Lane College | 1 August 1998 |
| Cambridgeshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture and Norfolk College of Arts and Technology | College of West Anglia | 1 August 1998 |
| Clarenden College and Basford Hall College | New College, Nottingham | 1 August 1998 |
| East Birmingham College and Handsworth College | City College, Birmingham | 1 August 1998 |
| North Bolton College and South College, Bolton | Bolton Sixth Form College | 1 August 1998 |
| York College of Further and Higher Education and York Sixth Form College | York College | 1 April 1999 |
| Durham College of Agriculture and Horticulture and East Durham Community College | East Durham and Houghall Community College | 1 June 1999 |
| Charles Keene College of Further Education and Leicester South Fields College | Leicester College | 1 August 1999 |
| New College, Nottingham and High Pavement Sixth Form College | New College, Nottingham | 1 April 1999 |
| Greenhill College and Harrow and Weald College | Harrow College | 1 June 1999 |
| Holme Lacy College and Pershore and Hindlip College | The Pershore Group of Colleges | 1 August 1999 |
| New College, Nottingham and Arnold and Carlton College | New College, Nottingham | 1 September 1999 |
| Bilston Community College and Wulfrun College | Wolverhampton College | 1 October 1999 |
| Kirkley Hall College and Northumberland College | Northumberland College | 1 January 2000 |
| Phoenix College and Merton College | Merton College | 1 April 2000 |
| The Rutland College and Tresham Institute | Tresham Institute | 1 August 2000 |
| Barnet College and Hendon College | Barnet College | 1 August 2000 |
| College of Care and Early Education and City of Bristol College | City of Bristol College | 1 August 2000 |
| Brooksby College and Melton Mowbray College | Brooksby Melton College | 1 September 2000 |
| Kingsway College and Westminster College | Westminster Kingsway College | 1 September 2000 |
| Trowbridge College, Chippenham College and Lackham College | Wiltshire College | 1 November 2000 |
| Walford College and North Shropshire College, Walford | Walford and North Shropshire College | 1 January 2001 |
| Abingdon College and West Oxfordshire College | Abingdon and Whitney College | 31 March 2001 |
| St. Austell College and Cornwall College | Cornwall College | 1 August 2001 |
| Basildon College and Thurrock College | Thurrock and Basildon College | 1 August 2001 |
| Dudley College of Technology and Rowley Regis College | Dudley College of Technology | 1 August 2001 |
| Shena Simon College and City College, Manchester | City College, Manchester | 1 September 2001 |
| Lewes Tertiary College and Eastbourne College | Sussex Downs College | 1 September 2001 |
| Broomfield College, Derby Tertiary College, Wilmorton and Mackworth College | Derby College | 1 January 2002 |
| Soundwell College and City of Bristol College | City of Bristol College | 1 January 2002 |
| Ealing Tertiary College and Hammersmith and West London College | Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College | 1 January 2002 |
| Coventry Technical College and Tile Hill College | City College, Coventry | 1 February 2002 |
| East Yorkshire College and Beverley College | East Riding College | 1 March 2002 |
| Brinsbury College and Chichester College of Arts, Science and Technology | Chichester College | 1 August 2002 |
| Teesside Tertiary College and Middlesbrough College | Middlesbrough College | 1 August 2002 |
| North Birmingham College and Sutton Coldfield College | Sutton Coldfield College | 1 April 2003 |
| Warwickshire College, Royal Leamington Spa and Moreton Morrell and Rugby College of Further Education | Warwickshire College, Royal Leamington Spa, Rugby and Moreton Morrell | 1 August 2003 |
| Oxford College, North Oxfordshire College and Rycotewood College | Oxford and Cherwell College | 1 August 2003 |
| Guildford College of Further and Higher Education and Merrist Wood College | Guildford College of Further and Higher Education | 1 August 2003 |
| Park College and Sussex Downs College | Sussex Downs College | 1 November 2003 |
| Daventry Tertiary College and Northampton College | Northampton College | 1 August 2004 |
| Rother Valley College and Rotherham College of Arts and Technology | Rotherham College of Arts and Technology | 1 August 2004 |
| Cannington College and Bridgwater College | Bridgwater College | 1 September 2004 |
| Tynemouth College and North Tyneside College | Tyne Metropolitan College | 1 March 2005 |
| Haywards Heath College and Crawley College | Central Sussex College | 1 August 2005 |
| Stockport College of Further and Higher Education and North Area College | Stockport College | 1 January 2006 |
| Isle College and College of West Anglia | College of West Anglia | 1 April 2006 |
| The People's College, Nottingham and Broxtowe College | Castle College | 1 June 2006 |
| Josiah Mason Sixth Form College and Sutton Coldfield College | Sutton Coldfield College | 1 August 2006 |
| Widnes and Runcorn Sixth Form College and Halton College | Riverside College, Halton | 1 August 2006 |
| The Newark and Sherwood College and Lincoln College | Lincoln College | 1 January 2007 |
| Brooklands College and Spelthorne College | Brooklands College | 1 August 2007 |
| Guildford College and Farnham College | Guildford College | 1 August 2007 |
| Sparsholt College (Agriculture and Horticulture) and Cricklade College | Sparsholt College | 1 August 2007 |
| Newcastle College and Skelmersdale College | Newcastle College | 1 August 2007 |
| Keighley College and Park Lane College | Park Lane College | 1 August 2007 |
| North Trafford College and South Trafford College | South Trafford College | 1 August 2007 |
| Salisbury College and Wiltshire College | Wiltshire College | 1 January 2008 |
| Manchester College of Arts and Technology and City College, Manchester | The Manchester College | 1 April 2008 |
| Penwith College and Truro College | Truro College | 1 April 2008 |
| Stockton Riverside College and Bede Sixth Form College | Stockton Riverside College | 30 April 2008 |
| North Devon College and East Devon College | North Devon College | 1 August 2008 |
| Dewsbury College and Huddersfield Technical College | Kirklees College | 1 August 2008 |
| Tamworth and Lichfield College, Rodbaston College and Cannock Chase Technical College | South Staffordshire College | 1 January 2009 |
| Salford College, Eccles College and Pendleton Sixth Form College | Salford City College | 1 January 2009 |
| Leeds College of Technology, Leeds Thomas Danby and Park Lane College | Leeds City College | 31 March 2009 |
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No1 person thinks not
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