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Further Education: Student Wastage

Commons · Question 83275 · Tabled 20 Oct 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 31 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Mark Garnier

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to provide pathways for students who have been withdrawn from further educations due to their absence from Maths and English GCSE lessons.

Answer

Answered by Josh MacAlister, 31 Oct 2025

Further education colleges can decide to retain students who have been absent from their maths or English lessons, but they will have their future funding allocations reduced by half the national funding rate for every eligible student who is not offered ...