Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his 30 January 2019 news story entitled £38 million T Level Capital Fund launches, how much of that £38 million he plans to allocate to schools in Solihull.

The T Level Capital Fund is for 2020 providers only and will be delivered in two parts. No providers have been selected to provide T levels in the academic year 2020 to 2021 within Solihull.

Eligible further education providers who have been selected to deliver T levels in the academic year 2020 to 2021 are able to bid for funding to refurbish their existing buildings or, where there is strong evidence to suggest a pressing need, to build new spaces. The results from this process will be known in summer 2020.

Funding for specialist equipment, such as digital and audio-visual kit, will be allocated to providers who have been selected in spring 2020 to deliver T levels in the academic year 2020 to 2021. We will make allocations using a formula based on the T level routes and the student numbers expected by the providers.