Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the adult skills budget is spent on short course programmes.

In 2017-18, 19% of the adult education budget was spent on entry and level 1 learning aims (excluding maths, English, ESOL – English for speakers of other languages - and traineeships). In addition, 18% of the adult education budget was spent on community learning. These low-level aims and community learning aims tend to be of shorter duration.