Further Education Institutions Debate
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Leigh Ingham
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Further Education Institutions
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Anna Dixon
I will take the intervention from my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Sussex (Alison Bennett) first.
Leigh Ingham
I thank my hon. Friend for calling the debate. I am proud to represent the best FE college in the country—I am sorry to everyone else—because I have Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group in my constituency. The work that it is doing to increase social mobility is incredibly important, but by the end of this decade it is facing a shortfall of 30% of places to allocate to my constituents. Does my hon. Friend agree that it is important that investment is given to colleges—not just revenue for lecturers’ wages, but capital to build the spaces we need?
Anna Dixon
Absolutely; it is vital that we get more capital as well as more revenue funding into FE.