Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the financial allocations were to organisations in the West Midlands as part of her Department's Strategic Development Fund.

The West Midlands area has been allocated £2,535,717 in Strategic Development Funding for the financial year 2022/23.

The funding has been awarded to a collaboration of the following further education providers to help them respond to local skills needs: BMET, City of Wolverhampton College, Coventry College, Fircroft College, GBS Institute of Technology, Halesowen College, North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College, Sandwell College, Solihull College, South & City College Birmingham, Walsall College, Warwickshire College Group, and University College Birmingham.

Details on financial allocations of the Strategic Development Fund across all regions in England are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strategic-development-fund-awards-2022-to-2023.