Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons her Department's funding for a university technical college on the side of the former Anfield Comprehensive School was withdrawn.

In August 2014, approval for the UTC Liverpool Engineering and Logistics project was withdrawn, and the associated funding cancelled. This decision was taken because the Universal Technical College project had made insufficient progress to give the Department for Education confidence that a good quality school would open and flourish. At the time of withdrawal of approval, the preferred location for the UTC was the former Anfield Comprehensive School site.