PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Adult Education: Hackney (17 March 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Skills Funding Letter 2015 to 2016, if he will make an assessment of the potential effects of the change in adult skills funding between 2014-15 and 2015-16 on (a) students and (b) colleges in Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency.

Asked by:
Dame Meg Hillier (Labour)

The skills funding agency allocates funding in response to learner demand and in accordance with Government priorities, including the importance of growing apprenticeships.

Allocations for colleges in Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency since 2010 can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2005-to-2013

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2013-to-2014

Allocations for 2015/16 have recently been shared with colleges and providers. They will be published on the Skills Funding Agency website as a matter of course.

Answered by:
Nick Boles (Independent)
25 March 2015