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Adult Education: Finance

Question for Department for Education

UIN 132278, tabled on 1 March 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to make legislative changes that will affect the status of Specialist Designated Institutions (SDIs) as part of the statutory further education sector and as set out in the Further and Higher Education Act 1992; and whether SDIs remain eligible for grant funding as set out in that Act.

Answered on

7 March 2022

The government does not plan to make any legislative changes that will affect the status of designated institutions, including specialist providers, as part of the statutory further education sector.

Designated institutions, as defined by the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, remain eligible for grant funding.

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