Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure sixth form colleges are funded on the same basis as other post-16 providers.

The funding for all 16 to 19 pupils comes from the same funding formula, irrespective of whether the provision is a sixth form college, a further education college, a school, an academy or a free school.

There is no factor within the 16-19 funding formula that differentiates between type of institution.