Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consideration she has given to funding further education colleges on an in-year basis where student enrolments exceed forecast allocations.

We recognise that where an institution makes a particularly significant expansion in student numbers in a single year, that can cause cost pressures. For that reason, we provide exceptional in-year growth funding for institutions that grow student numbers above a certain level. We are investing £87 million to fund exceptional in-year growth for the 2025/26 academic year.