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Education (Milton Keynes)

Answer

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Mr. Davey) on 11 January.As the allocation of funding in local arrears relates to the LSC's operational responsibilities, Mark Haysom the LSC's chief Executive has written to the hon. Member with the information requested for Milton Keynes and a copy of his reply has been placed in the House Libraries.Letter from Mark Haysom, dated 11 January 2005:"I write in response to your recent Parliamentary Question to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, where you asked what assessment she has made of the effects of prioritising 14 to 19 education on the funding of Prince's Trust schemes in North East Milton Keynes.""The Learning and Skills Council provides funding for Prince's Trust activities to Milton Keynes College through two separate methods.""Firstly, Milton Keynes College directly provides Prince's Trust provision and this is funded from the College's mainstream Further Education budget, as provided by the LSC. This funding is used for activities chiefly in Milton Keynes and Aylesbury, although we do not have a breakdown of the information into specific constituencies or wards for Milton Keynes.""Secondly, the Learning and Skills Council in the South East has decided, on a regional basis, to continue to support Prince's Trust activity via a conduit college; in this case, Milton Keynes College. The College occupies an important place in this process and acts as the ‘conduit college' to enable other non-FE providers to undertake Prince's Trust activities.""The South East, as an LSC region, has committed to continue to fund Prince's Trust activity within the region for the coming year. This academic year (2005/06) the budget allocated for the South East region is £1.3 million.""Milton Keynes College is the conduit college for Prince's Trust Volunteers funding within the South East region. Funding is channelled through the college out to 12 partner deliverers of Prince's Trust programmes across the 6 South East LSC areas. Target learners are 16–25 and from groups, such as disaffected, care leavers, drug abusers, ex-offenders, etc. They follow the Prince's Trust Team Programme through which they aim to achieve the customised City & Guilds Profile of Achievement. In the period August 01 to Dec 04, 1,687 learners participated in programmes in the southeast. Milton Keynes College record learners as part of the college's Individual Learner Record and Prince's Trust activity is included within the college Final Claim and Audit""For 2004/05 the amount spent on Prince's Trust activities by the team within Milton Keynes College operating within the Milton Keynes area totalled £63,515.70. The amount projected by the College for 2005/06 is £109,112.75.""In 2004/05 the schemes benefited 15 learners under the age of nineteen and 10 learners over the age of nineteen.""In 2005/06, it is anticipated that the schemes will benefit 18 under nineteen-year-olds and .18 learners over the age of nineteen.""From these figures there would not appear to be an adverse impact on the learner numbers for either age group.""I trust this is helpful."

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

27206; 441 c651-3W

Session

2005-06

Related items

Deposited Paper HINF 2006/068
Thursday, 12 January 2006
Deposited papers
House of Commons

Subjects

Finance Milton Keynes Prince's Trust

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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