Question follow-through · 17880
Further Education: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve access to further education facilities for young people in rural areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 12 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve access to further education facilities for young people in rural areas.
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Dec 2024
Answer published
This government is committed to driving economic growth and supporting opportunity for all. To help achieve these missions, we announced £300 million in the 2025/26 financial year for further education (FE) at the Autumn Budget 2024. We will set out how t...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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