Question follow-through · 116065
Further Education: Labour Turnover and Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the level of (a) recruitment and (b) retention in further education colleges in (i) island and (ii) coastal communities.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 1 Apr 2026 · 35 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the level of (a) recruitment and (b) retention in further education colleges in (i) island and (ii) coastal communities.
2 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Apr 2026
Answer published
The department is taking actions to strengthen the recruitment and retention in further education (FE) colleges across the country, including coastal and island communities, as outlined in the recent Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper.Across the spe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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