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Dept for Education and Skills

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Mr. Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much funding the Department provided to the Basic Skills Agency in each of the last five years. [177378] Mr. Ivan Lewis: The total funding provided to the Basic Skills Agency by the Department for each of the years from 1999-2000 to 2003-04, along with the funding currently agreed for 2004-05, is given in the following table: Basic Skills Agency spend, 1999-2004 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ Core grant Projects Total 1999-2000 7,374,500.00 00.00 7,374,500.00 2000-01 16,699,289.00 6,888.88 16,706,177.88 2001-02 21,267,884.00 21,298,878.68 42,566,762.68 2002-03 5,119,740.00 41,525,208.12 46,644,948.12 2003-04 5,412,000.00 40,330,969.77 45,742,969.77 2004-05 5,467,000.00 1,281,394.00 6,748,394.00 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. A summary of the headline projects that have been funded for each of the years from 1999-2000 is given in the following table: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Headline projects 1999-2000 Literacy and Numeracy strategies, and Basic Skills related work 2000-01 Family Literacy and Numeracy Programmes; NVOPP (the National Voluntary Organisations Partnership Programme); Intensive Teacher Training 2001-02 Financial Literacy; NVOPP; Community Based ESOL; Teacher Training; Family Programmes; Workplace Programmes; Offenders Learning and Skills Unit `Link-Up' project, training prison education staff 2002-03 Financial Literacy; Basic Skills Brokerage Scheme Phase II, the roll-out of the Brokerage Scheme; basic skills development with Sector Skills Councils; NVOPP. Other projects, won by tender, include Link Up (training volunteer adult learner supporters), and developing diagnostic assessment tools for literacy, numeracy and ESOL 2003-04 Financial Literacy; Skills for Families; Step in to Learning (customised training and development programme for staff in Sure Start, Children's Centres and early years settings); Link Up; and a database of support links between employers and providers 2004-05 QUIP (the Quality Improvement Programme) is included in the Core Grant. Projects include Financial Literacy and Step in to Learning _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

177378; 422 c1383W;422 c1383-4W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Finance Basic Skills Agency

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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