Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to publish the qualifications to have funding removed under the level 3 qualification review; and if he will include in publication the criteria used to identify them.

The government recently announced that there will be an extra year before changes from the post-16 review of level 3 qualifications are implemented. We still plan to publish the final list of qualifications that will be defunded because they overlap with waves 1 and 2 T Levels by summer 2022, with a provisional list and accompanying criteria being published in the New Year.

The additional year means that we will remove 16-19 funding approval for qualifications that overlap with wave 1 and 2 T Levels from the 2024/25 academic year, and from wave 3 and 4 T Levels from the 2025/26 academic year.

The full range of qualifications that will be approved for funding in future will depend on the outcome of the new approvals process. Qualifications will need to demonstrate their necessity and meet new quality standards. These standards are currently in development and will be published in 2022.