Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the level of funding his Department will provide to further education colleges for the provision of adult education in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement.

The total budget for post 19 Further Education for 2015/16 is £3,741,472,000.

We do not have any budgets beyond 2015-16 as these will be agreed in the next Spending Review.