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Higher Education: Funding

Answer

Government funding for each of the organisations over the past four financial years is set out in the table below.

Organisation	Funding in Financial Year (£000s)(a)
	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
(a) Institute for Learning	589	932	2,864	5,048
(b) UK Commission for Employment and Skills	-	-	-	66,635(b)
(c) Foundation Degree forward	4,662	2,036	5,748	4,589
(d) National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education	2,548	2,574	9,579(b)	5,353(c)
(f) BECTA	30,400	30,274	38,394	61,550

"Footnotes:""(a) These figures cover known funding from BIS/DCSF or predecessor bodies. It is possible that other parts of the public sector have contracted for specific activity with the organisations in the table, such information is not held centrally.""(b) Excludes £1 million from the devolved administrations and £10.9 million from the National Occupational Standards Levy.""(c) Includes £6 million for the merger with the Basic Skills Agency.""(d) Includes £2 million for the merger with the Basic Skills Agency." "(a) These figures cover known funding from BIS/DCSF or predecessor bodies. It is possible that other parts of the public sector have contracted for specific activity with the organisations in the table, such information is not held centrally.""(b) Excludes £1 million from the devolved administrations and £10.9 million from the National Occupational Standards Levy.""(c) Includes £6 million for the merger with the Basic Skills Agency.""(d) Includes £2 million for the merger with the Basic Skills Agency." "(b) Excludes £1 million from the devolved administrations and £10.9 million from the National Occupational Standards Levy.""(c) Includes £6 million for the merger with the Basic Skills Agency.""(d) Includes £2 million for the merger with the Basic Skills Agency." "(c) Includes £6 million for the merger with the Basic Skills Agency.""(d) Includes £2 million for the merger with the Basic Skills Agency." "(d) Includes £2 million for the merger with the Basic Skills Agency." We are not aware of any direct funding to the 157 Group.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

42; 715 c48-9WA

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Finance UK Commission for Employment and Skills National Institute of Adult Continuing Education British Educational Communications and Technology Agency 157 Group Institute for Learning Foundation Degree Forward

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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