Asked by: Michael Meacher (Labour - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to HM Treasury's press release, Chancellor announces £4.5 billion of measures to bring down debt, published on 4 June 2015, what efficiency savings she plans to make to education for 16 to 19 year olds; and how such savings will be applied.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The savings announced by the Chancellor will come from a variety of measures including expected departmental underspends in demand-led budgets, efficiencies and some small budgetary reductions.
The allocations for the education of 16- to 19-year-olds in the 2015/16 academic year that were announced in March remain in place and we are not planning to change them.
Asked by: Michael Meacher (Labour - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will give a guarantee that in her tenure as Secretary of State for Education there will be no for-profit schools.
Answered by Edward Timpson
All academies must be set up as charitable trusts, which ensures that any income must be spent on their charitable aims. The government has no plans to change these arrangements.