There was a Topical Questions session that took in place in Parliament on Monday 11th December and one of the people who corresponded was Sally-Ann Hart who is the Conservative MP for Hastings and Rye. There was a response from a Minister MP, Robert Halfon and here is the question and answer which relates to the £50 Million figure and how it will assist UTC’s and also STEM items.

Sally-Ann: The Government are rightly focusing on technical as well as academic education with the new British standard. University technical college sleeves would support the Government to enhance pre-16 technical education in secondary schools. Will the extra £50 million made available for technical education in schools in the autumn statement be available for UTC sleeves?

Robert: My hon. Friend is a champion for UTCs and technical education. I am delighted that the Secretary of State recently approved two more UTCs. A couple of weeks ago I visited the brilliant Harlow BMAT STEM Academy, which is a UTC, and UTC Portsmouth. We will respond shortly to Lord Baker’s request for a UTC sleeve pilot, as she mentioned.