Recommendation 19

The ESFA acknowledged that the FE funding system was complicated and said there were a range of reasons for this including the complexity of the college sector itself, with colleges offering very different programmes and catering for very different groups of students. It told us that it was reviewing various aspects of the funding system including how it used lagged data. It expected the forthcoming White Paper on further education would include a commitment to try to make funding as straightforward as possible.34 Intervention