Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to tackle outstanding repairs to further education college buildings in Lancaster and Fleetwood constituency.

The Further Education Capital Transformation Programme is delivering the £1.5 billion manifesto commitment to upgrade further education (FE) college estates.

Through this programme, £200 million was allocated to all FE colleges and designated institutions to undertake immediate remedial work and upgrade the condition of their estates. Lancaster and Morecambe College, which is situated in same local authority as Lancaster and Fleetwood constituency, received an allocation of £410,528 of capital funding to improve their estate in August 2020. Colleges were able to prioritise how they could use this funding to tackle immediate condition improvement projects.

The next stage of the programme of investment to upgrade the FE estate is due to be announced later this year.