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Adult Education: Hackney

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Question for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

UIN 227859, tabled on 17 March 2015

Question

Meg Hillier
Labour
Hackney South and Shoreditch
Commons

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.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answer

Nick Boles
Conservative
Grantham and Stamford
Commons

Answered on

25 March 2015

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.

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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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