HC Deb 10 May 2000 vol 349 cc392-3W
Mr. Boswell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list in date order mergers between further education corporations since April 1993, specifying whether each amounted to a transfer or merger of undertakings. [121301]

Mr. Wicks

There are two types of mergers: the first is a single dissolution where one further education corporation is dissolved and its property, rights and liabilities are transferred to another corporation; and the second is where two or more corporations are closed and their property, rights and liabilities are transferred to a new corporation. The name of the continuing or new corporation, as the case may be, may also change at the time of the merger.

The table lists all mergers between further education corporations since 1 April 1993.

Date Colleges Type of merger Name of merged Institution
2 April 1993 St. Austell Sixth Form College and Mid-Cornwall College Double dissolution St. Austell College
1 September 1993 Cleveland College of Further Education and Sir William Turner's Sixth Form College Double dissolution Cleveland Tertiary College
15 August 1995 The Ridge College and Margaret Danyers College Double dissolution Ridge Danyers College
1 August 1995 Acklam Sixth Form College and Kirby College of Further Education Double dissolution Middlesbrough College
1 August 1995 Longlands College of Further Education and Marton Sixth Form College Double dissolution Teesside Tertiary College
1 March 1996 Hinckley College and North Warwickshire College for Technology and Art Double dissolution North Warwickshire and Hinckley College
1 August 1996 Mid Warwickshire College and Warwickshire College for Agriculture, Horticulture and Equine Studies Single dissolution (WCAHES) Warwickshire College, Royal Leamington Spa and Moreton Morrell
1 August 1996 Monkwearmouth College and Wearside College Double dissolution City of Sunderland College
1 September 1996 South Bristol College and Brunel College of Arts and Technology Double dissolution City of Bristol College
6 January 1997 Reading College of Arts and Technology and Berkshire College of Art and Design Single dissolution (BCAD) Reading College of Arts and Technology
1 August 1997 Prior Pursglove College and South Park Sixth Form College Single dissolution (SPSFC) Prior Pursglove College
10 May 1997 Worcestershire College of Agriculture and Pershore College of Horticulture Single dissolution (WCA) Pershore and Hindlip College
18 February 1998 Hyde Clarendon College and Tameside College Single dissolution (HCC) Tameside College
1 August 1998 Airedale and Wharfedale College and Park Lane College Single dissolution (A&WC) Park Lane College
1 August 1998 Cambridgeshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture and Norfolk College of Arts and Technology Single dissolution (CCAH) College of West Anglia
1 August 1998 Clarendon College and Basford Hall College Single dissolution (BHC) New College, Nottingham
1 August 1998 East Birmingham College and Handsworth College Single dissolution (EBC) City College, Birmingham
1 August 1998 North Bolton College and South College, Bolton Double dissolution Bolton Sixth Form College
1 April 1999 York College of Further and Higher Education and York Sixth Form College Single dissolution (YSFC) York College
1 June 1999 Durham College of Agriculture and Horticulture and East Durham Community College Double dissolution East Durham and Houghall Community College
1 August 1999 Charles Keene College of Further Education and Leicester South Fields College Double dissolution Leicester College
1 April 1999 New College, Nottingham and High Pavement Sixth Form College Single dissolution (HPSFC) New College, Nottingham
1 June 1999 Greenhill College, Harrow and Weald College Double dissolution Harrow College
1 August 1999 Holme Lacey College and Pershore and Hindlip College Single dissolution (Holme Lacey) The Pershore Group of Colleges
1 September 1999 New College, Nottingham and Arnold and Carlton College Single dissolution (Arnold and Carlton) New College, Nottingham
1 October 1999 Bilston Community College and Wulfrun College Single dissolution (Bilston College) Wolverhampton College
1 January 2000 Kirkley Hall College and Northumberland College Single dissolution (Kirkley Hall) Northumberland College