Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there will be a competition for further Institutes of Technology as part of his Department's plan to review Institute of Technology cold spots.

We have always acknowledged that there might be some parts of the country where there were no proposals that met our quality standard in this competition. We will review the extent of geographical ‘cold spots’ in provision for Institutes of Technology to determine whether a future competition should be considered.