Question follow-through · 106706
Further Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to introduce a multi-year funding settlement for the further education sector, and what assessment she has made of the potential benefits of a three-year funding cycle for workforce planning a
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 19 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 2 Feb 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to introduce a multi-year funding settlement for the further education sector, and what assessment she has made of the potential benefits of a three-year funding cycle for workforce planning a
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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2 Feb 2026
Answer published
Further education colleges have a number of different funding streams, including funding for 16-19 year-olds. Funding for 16-19 year-olds is through a lagged funding system whereby the funding for each college is based on its student numbers in the previo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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School Meals: Nutrition
20 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the role of nutritious school food in reducing health inequalities in constituencies with high levels of child poverty and childhood excess weight, including Wolverham