Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to address repairs backlogs in further education colleges in Stockton North constituency.

The Further Education (FE) Capital Transformation Programme is delivering the £1.5 billion manifesto commitment to upgrade FE college estates.

Through this programme, £200 million was allocated to all FE colleges and designated institutions to undertake immediate remedial work and upgrade the condition of their estates. The Education Training Collective, which incorporates the FE colleges in Stockton-on-Tees received an allocation of £960,000 of capital funding, to improve their estate in August 2020.

The next stage of the programme of investment to upgrade the FE estate is due to be announced later this year.