Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will assess the implications for his Department's policy on ensuring that disabled people gain employment of the in-year funding reductions announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for his Department on 4 June 2015.

We remain committed to ensuring the skills system operates effectively to support learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. The majority of the Department’s £450m savings will be delivered through known underspends and releasing unallocated funding. Officials in my department are working with the appropriate funding bodies to determine how savings can best be achieved in line with ministers’ priorities.