Question follow-through · 45242
Further Education: Conditions of Employment and Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve (a) pay and (b) working conditions in further education colleges.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 8 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 1 May 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve (a) pay and (b) working conditions in further education colleges.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 May 2025
Answer published
Further education (FE) colleges, rather than government, are responsible for setting and negotiating pay within colleges and for the working conditions of their staff.FE Colleges were incorporated under the terms of the 1992 Further and Higher Education A...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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