Question follow-through · 9713
Further Education: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to introduce binding sectoral bargaining to the further education sector.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 17 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 24 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to introduce binding sectoral bargaining to the further education sector.
24 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2024
Answer published
The government does not set or recommend pay in further education (FE) as this remains the responsibility of individual colleges who are free to implement pay arrangements in line with their local needs. There are no current plans to introduce binding sec...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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