Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 77381

Vocational Education: Finance

Tabled: 15 September 2025
Answered: 13 October 2025
Named Day

Question

Alison Bennett

Liberal DemocratMid Sussex

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of withdrawing funding from applied general qualifications on the number of young people not in education, employment or training.

Answer

Josh MacAlister
​​​The department introduced 140 newly reformed qualifications to be taught from the beginning of this academic year and just announced a further 27 newly reformed qualifications which it will fund from August 2026. This includes newly reformed alternativ...

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