Helen Jones – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2015-11-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when post-16 education in Warrington is planned to be reviewed under the area review process; and if he will make a statement.

Nick Boles

All colleges in England will be subject to an Area Review. The timing of individual areas will be published in due course once they have been agreed by the National Area Review Steering Group. We have said that we will announce the area reviews in a series of waves, decisions on which area will be included in each wave will take account of a number of factors including whether colleges are deemed to be at financial risk.

We expect reviews to last 3-4 months based on our early experiences, and we anticipate they will all be completed by March 2017.