§ Mr. GorstTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many complaints he has received in the last 12 months about unfair competition between private and state-funded colleges that both teach English language courses to overseas students, but where the latter are in receipt of subsidies provided by the Further Education Funding Council in order to do so; and what information he has with regard to consequential job losses in the private sector resulting from this practice.
§ Mr. BoswellThe Department has received six letters in the last 12 months on concerns about the sources of funding for English as a foreign language—EFL—courses in private and state-funded colleges. The Department holds no information on the number of staff employed in the delivery of EFL in the private sector.