Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to allocate new moneys to fund in full the pay award for teaching staff in Catholic sixth-form colleges; and if he will make a statement.

Further education (FE) providers, including Catholic sixth-form colleges, are independent institutions responsible for setting their own staff salaries, and the government has no current plans to allocate money to assist with any increases in their teachers’ pay.

However, we know that FE faces cost pressures, and we are working with the sector to look closely at funding, to see what more we can do and to inform Spending Review planning.