Further Education Colleges

HC Deb 20 July 1993 vol 229 cc109-10W

Mr. Cummings

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what plans he has to increase the level of access funds for further education colleges.

Mr. Boswell

The Further Education Funding Council has been allocated £4–8 million from the access funds to disburse to colleges in the further education sector in the 1993–94 academic year, an increase of 9–6 per cent. on the sum available to FE colleges in 1992–93.