Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of his Department's spending on further education for (a) people aged 16 to 18, (b) people aged 18 to 25 and (c) people aged over 18 in each financial year since 2010-11.

Spend by the Department for Education (and previously the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) on further education, is reported through publication of the Annual Report and Accounts. These are available for each financial year since 2010-11.

The Department for Education reports are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills reports are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bis-annual-reports-and-accounts.

The government has recently announced very significant increases in spending on further education. The October Spending Review explained that total spending on skills will increase over the Parliament by £3.8 billion by the 2024-25 financial year, equivalent to a cash increase of 42%, compared to 2019-20.

In December we announced specific details of increased investment. There will be an increase of £615 million in funding for 16-19 education in the 2022-23 financial year which will be used to lift funding rates and pay for an extra 40 hours of education per student. A further 9 Institutes of Technology were announced, specialising in delivering higher technical education in areas across England. The T Level Capital Fund is now offering £150 million for colleges, schools, and other providers to bid on from the fourth wave of the T Level roll out.