Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many further education colleges (a) appealed against the clawback of adult education funds and (b) were successful in their appeal against the clawback of adult education funds.

The department received 78 adult education business cases from eligible Education and Skills Funding Agency grant funded providers, of which 58 were further education colleges. In total, 65 business cases were supported, of which 48 were further education colleges.