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Adult Education: Finance

Question for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

UIN HL4262, tabled on 3 December 2015

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the annual £210 million ring-fenced funding for adult community education is to be continued; and if not, what level of funding such community education will receive in future.

Answered on

22 December 2015

We have protected the core adult skills participation budget in cash terms, at £1.5 billion. Further details on what the settlement means for the Further Education sector is set out in the Skills Funding Letter.

Answered by

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills