Question follow-through · 9357
Further Education: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help tackle low pay in the further education sector.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help tackle low pay in the further education sector.
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2024
Answer published
The government does not set or recommend pay in further education (FE). This remains the responsibility of individual colleges who are free to implement pay arrangements in line with their local needs.The government recognises the vital role that FE teach...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Family Hubs
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Breakfast Clubs: Pre-school Education
29 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to extend the breakfast clubs initiative to state-funded early childhood education institutions.
Media: Education
30 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to improve media literacy education in schools by (a) providing additional (i) resources and (ii) funding, (b) delivering teacher training and (c) improving curriculum support.
Schools: Asthma
24 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential benefits of requiring schools to hold emergency asthma inhalers.
Asthma: Schools
4 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of schools (a) had and (b) did not have emergency inhalers installed on their grounds in the latest period for which data is available.
Asthma: Schools
4 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 62446 on Schools: Asthma, what steps his Department is taking to increase the (a) purchase of and (b) storage for emergency inhalers in schools.
Students: Loans
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Students: Childcare
16 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support students who have been ordered by Student Loans Company to repay Childcare Grant funding issued in error.
Schools: Birmingham
20 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has been approached by (a) Birmingham City Council, (b) the West Midlands Combined Authority, or (c) any other public body to approve the re-designation of school land for development in Birmingham
Pupils: Asthma
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to make asthma management training mandatory for staff in schools.
Pupils: Asthma
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the preparedness of staff for managing asthma-related medical incidents in schools.