Further Education Colleges

HC Deb 01 February 1995 vol 253 cc730-1W

Mr. Kilfoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many further education colleges have achieved their student targets;

(2) how many further education colleges have had their budgets cut because of non-attainment of student targets;

(3) if the methodology used by the Further Education Funding Council in allocating money to further education colleges includes criteria covering socio-economic factors.

Mr. Boswell

Details of individual colleges' student targets, the funding of individual colleges, and the funding methodology, are matters for the Further Education Funding Council. I am asking the council's chief executive to write to the hon. Member.