§ 74. Mr. RoweTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he has any plans to modify the arrangements for crediting short-term courses in further education colleges; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. JacksonWith the exception of non-advanced evening only courses and non-released part-time day courses, places provided by each local education authority on further education courses are taken into account in that authority's grant-related expenditure assessment for rate support grant purposes in accordance with returns made by the authority in the further education statistical record on 1 November each year. From 1989–90 onwards the grant-related expenditure assessment will also take account of certain part-time and non-degree courses of higher education provided by local education authorities in colleges which they maintain or assist.