Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much capital funding his Department has provided to further education colleges in (a) Coventry North East constituency and (b) Coventry in each of the last ten years.
The department has provided the following capital funding to further education colleges that fall under (a) and (b) in the 2020-21 financial year. This was provided under the Further Education Capital Allocation.
| 2020-21 financial year |
(a) Coventry College is the only college in the North East constituency. Prior to 2017 it was Henley College | £1,044,481 |
(b) Coventry as a whole: Coventry College (prior to 2017- City College Coventry & Henley College and Hereward College) | £1,131,010 |
Between financial year 2015-16 and the present, Local Economic Partnerships have had devolved responsibility for allocating skills capital funding via the Local Growth Fund.
Between financial year 2010-11 and financial year 2014-15, capital funding for colleges was the responsibility of the Skills Funding Agency. It awarded the following funding to Coventry College’s predecessor colleges:
| 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
(c) Coventry College is the only college in the North East constituency. Prior to 2017 it was Henley College | £2,000,000 | £120,000 | £310,000 | £82,945 |
(d) Coventry as a whole: Coventry College (prior to 2017- City College Coventry & Henley College and Hereward College) | £2,100,000 | £120,000 | £310,000 | £82,945 |