Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students currently attend further education colleges in (a) East Lancashire and (b) Burnley.

Information on the number of government funded further education learners at each further education provider is published online at the FE Data Library.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-local-authority-tables

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/502598/feandskills-learners-by-provider-local-authority-learner-characteristics-1415.xls

The table provides a list of all further education providers, the local authority and local education authority of the provider head office, and information about the number of learners that attended in the 2014/15 academic year.

Funding allocated to training providers and colleges from both the Skills Funding Agency and the Education Funding Agency is also published online for academic years 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16. Links to the funding numbers are provided below.

Skills Funding Agency:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2013-to-2014

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2014-to-2015

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2015-to-2016

Education Funding Agency:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/16-to-19-allocation-data-2013-to-2014-academic-year

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/16-to-19-allocation-data-2014-to-2015-academic-year

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/16-to-19-allocation-data-2015-to-2016-academic-year

Some further education colleges also receive government funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) for their higher education provision. Information on HEFCE’s recurrent grant allocations in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 academic years are published on their website:

2014-15 http://www.hefce.ac.uk/funding/annallocns/1415/institutions/

2015-16 http://www.hefce.ac.uk/funding/annallocns/1516/institutions/

Income Contingent Repayment (ICR) Student Loans are available to assist higher education students with the payment of their tuition fees. Information on tuition fee loans paid to individual higher education providers is published by the Student Loans Company at the following link for the Academic Years 2011/12 to 2014/15.

http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx