Question follow-through · 81799
Sixth Form Colleges: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when sixth form colleges will be able to access the £375m of capital expansion funding earmarked in the Industrial Strategy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 12 Nov 2025 · 29 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when sixth form colleges will be able to access the £375m of capital expansion funding earmarked in the Industrial Strategy.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2025
Answer published
We know that the 16 to 19 population has been increasing in some parts of England and that extra capacity has been needed in post-16 places in some areas.The post-16 Capacity Fund has already invested £282 million between 2021 to 2025 for additional capac...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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