Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Fiona Mactaggart Excerpts
Monday 10th February 2014

(10 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Matt Hancock Portrait Matthew Hancock
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That is exactly the sort of anomaly that we have put right by making sure that resource funding is exactly the same per student for 16 to 18-year-olds, no matter what type of institution or where in the country.

Fiona Mactaggart Portrait Fiona Mactaggart (Slough) (Lab)
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One of the reasons for differential funding has been students who have experienced less education before they get to the sixth form than other students, perhaps because of illness, absence from school or being refugees, for example. The changes in funding for 18-year-olds in further education are hitting those people. What is the Minister going to do about it?