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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Mr. Gill: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the level of funding per pupil in further education was in (a) Leicester South, (b) the Unitary Authority of Leicester City and (c) England in each year since 1997. [198666] Dr. Howells: The Department allocates funds for education and training in the post-16 learning and skills sector to the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). The LSC decides on allocations at individual college and local LSC level. Information about these allocations is not collected by the Department. This is a matter for the LSC. Mark Haysom the Learning and Skills Council's Chief Executive will write to the hon. Member with details of further education spend per pupil in (a) Leicester South, (b) the Unitary Authority of Leicester City. A copy of his letter will be placed in the House Library. The following table shows funding per full-time equivalent student in further education in England from 1997-98 to 2004-05. These are cash figures that show total funding for the further education (FE) sector. The figures include monies provided for participation and certain funding for earmarked purposes, including capital, the Standards Fund and other special grants to colleges. These figures are consistent with those published in the `Departmental Annual Report 2004'. Funding per full-time equivalent student in further education 1997-98 to 2004-05 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Total funding (£) 1997-981 3,070 1998-991 3,090 1999-20001 3,380 2000-011 3,640 2001-021 4,050 2002-032 4,120 2003-043 4,240 2004-053 4,460 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Actual. 2 Provisional. 3 Planned.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

198666; 426 c2127-8W;426 c2133-4W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Finance Education Further education Leicester City Council Pupils Unitary councils Per capita costs Leicester

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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