Moved by
The Lord Bishop of Durham
90B: After Clause 25, insert the following new Clause—
“Long-term funding review
(1) The Secretary of State must commission a panel of experts to review of the long-term funding for skills and post-16 education.
(2) The panel must consider and make recommendations about—
(a) resources available for different types of technical training, further education and higher education;
(b) support for disadvantaged students and those with special education needs;
(c) the impact of this Act on the long-term funding for skills and post-16 education.
(3) The panel must conclude their review and make a report to the Secretary of State with their findings and recommendations.
(4) Within the period of one year beginning with the day on which this Act is passed, the Secretary of State must lay the panel’s report before Parliament.”
Member’s explanatory statement
This is a probing amendment, intended to draw out the Government’s plans to introduce a longer-term funding settlement for FE, as called for by the Education Select Committee, prefigured in the White Paper and signalled, as the direction of travel by recent increases in core FE funding, capital funding allocations and the longer term Lifelong Learning Entitlement.