Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of the Skills Funding Agency budget has been spent in the West Midlands in each of the last five years.

Adult skills funding is made available to further education providers, not local areas or regions. The funding system is demand led and money follows the learners.

Allocations for 2015-16 will be published for all colleges as a matter of course. These will be made available on the Skills Funding Agency website. Historic allocations are also available on the Skills Funding Agency website.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2005-to-2013

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