SIXTH FORM COLLEGES

Early day motion 770, tabled 4 February 2015 by Austin Mitchell (Labour). Signed by 18 members.

That this House, recognising that sixth form colleges provide better value for money by delivering better outcomes, providing a wider range of courses and educating more disadvantaged students than schools and academies at a lower cost to the public finances, urges the Government to reduce the huge and unfair inequality in funding which exists between the different types of 16 to 18 providers by refunding the VAT and insurance costs of sixth form colleges, as they do for schools and academies, and also to give them 100 per cent capital grant for their buildings, as they do for schools and academies, so that all 16 to 18 year olds receive the same level of investment in their education irrespective of where they study.

Signatures by party: Labour 10, Liberal Democrat 4, Conservative 3, Green 1.