Question follow-through · 6113
Further Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of re-orienting the further education funding system to rewards outcomes rather than headcounts.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jun 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of re-orienting the further education funding system to rewards outcomes rather than headcounts.
4 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jun 2026
Answer published
We use the 16 to 19 funding formula to calculate and allocate funding to each institution, each academic year. Basic funding for institutions is calculated using lagged student volumes and funding rates, which depend on the size of their students' study p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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