Further Education: Funding for 16 to 18 Year-Olds

HL Deb 23 April 2004 vol 660 c67WA

Baroness Maddock

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they expect funding for 16 to 18 year-olds in colleges to match that provided to schools; and, if so, how. [HL2433]

Baroness Ashton of Upholland

The Government have set out their investment plans for 2003–04 to 2005–06 to support their Success for All strategy to reform further education and training. These plans enable the Learning and Skills Council to increase funding for further education significantly. For the academic year 2003–04, core funding rates per qualification increased by 3 per cent for school sixth-forms and 4.5 per cent for further education colleges (setting aside the impact on rates of changes to targeted funds for pay and staff training and teachers' pension funding).