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Further Education: Expenditure

Question for Department for Education

UIN 179740, tabled on 12 April 2021

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average per pupil funding was for 16 to 19 year olds in (a) further education colleges and (b) other colleges and schools in each of the last five years.

Answered on

15 April 2021

The table below uses the published 16-19 funding allocations to derive the average funding per student for further education (FE) colleges, and all other types of providers, from 2016/17 and the subsequent four academic years.

Average total programme funding per student £

Provider type

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

FE colleges

£4,623

£4,627

£4,653

£4,674

£5,111

Other providers

£4,386

£4,370

£4,390

£4,392

£4,840

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