Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to tackle repair backlogs in further education colleges in Warrington North constituency.

The Further Education Capital Transformation Programme is delivering the £1.5 billion manifesto commitment to upgrade further education (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. Warrington and Vale Royal College, in the Warrington North Constituency, received an allocation of £712,228 of capital funding to improve their estate in August 2020. College groups were able to prioritise how and at which sites they could use this funding to tackle immediate condition improvement projects.

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