Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students were enrolled onto Level 3 courses that are not due to receive funding after 2025 in the (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23 academic year; and how many students studied the T-Level equivalent courses in the same period.

The department does not routinely publish 16-19 enrolment data for individual qualifications. However, in the second stage consultation response on level 3 reforms, the department included enrolment estimates at 16-19 that could be impacted by the reforms to level 3 qualifications. This impact assessment is accessible at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-post-16-qualifications-at-level-3-in-england.

In the reformed system, students will be able to choose to study a T Level, a programme of A levels, a mixed study programmes of A levels and alternative academic or technical qualifications, or where there is no T Level coverage, a large alternative academic qualification. The department will publish the list of qualifications in May 2024 that have been approved for funding from 2025.

Further data on T Levels can be found in the 2022/23 T Level action plan, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/t-level-action-plan.