Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussion (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have had with (i) sixth-form colleges and (ii) representative bodies of sixth-form colleges on the effect of the introduction of T-levels on the (A) intake and (B) curriculum of those colleges.

Ministers and officials work with a range of organisations in relation to T Level implementation and meet regularly with representatives from the Sixth Form College Association.

The department held a series of engagement events as part of the T Level consultation process earlier this year and a number of sixth form colleges attended these. The department will consult on the arrangements for T Level funding in the autumn and sixth form colleges and their representatives will have the opportunity to offer their views on this.

We recently announced the first providers to deliver T Levels in 2020 and six of these are sixth form colleges. We will work closely with these organisations to test and shape specific elements of the T Level programme.