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Learning and Skills Council: Sweet Concepts

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 22 February 2010, Official Report, column 156W, on the Central Office of Information: marketing, what promotional products were purchased from Sweet Concepts Ltd on behalf of the (a) Learning and Skills Council and...

Asked by

Nick Hurd (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 April 2010

Reference

508 c1489W; 324301

House

House of Commons

United Kingdom Accreditation Service: Consultants

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells of 1 May 2008, Official Report, columns 686-87W, on the United Kingdom Accreditation Service: Grayling Political Strategy, if he will place in the Library a copy of the...

Asked by

Nick Hurd (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

25 November 2008

Reference

483 c1412W; 237857

House

House of Commons

UfI: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how much his Department has spent on Ufi and learndirect in (a) the most recent year for which figures are available and (b) each of the previous five years, broken down by main budget heading.

Asked by

Stephen Williams (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

5 November 2008

Reference

482 c570W; 232389

House

House of Commons

University for Industry: Citigate Public Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what payments (a) University for Industry and (b) Learn Direct made to Citigate Public Affairs in each of the last five years; and on what date and for what purpose the payment was made in each case.

Asked by

Greg Clark (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

23 April 2008

For answer on

25 April 2008

Answered on

13 May 2008

The payments made by Ufi at this level of detail are not collected by my Department. This is an operational matter for Ufi since they determine any payments to local providers, partners and other organisations that are necessary to support the delivery of the Ufi's key priorities and targets. Sarah Jones, Ufi's chief executive, has written to the hon. Member with further information and a copy of her reply has been placed in the House Library.Letter from Sarah Jones, dated 1 May 2008:"I write following your Parliamentary Question regarding the payment of fees to Citigate Public Affairs over the last five years. ""The table below outlines the expenditure of Ufi, the company which owns and operates learndirect services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, in relation to this public affairs company:"

£
	12 months 2003¹	12 months 2004¹	12 months 2005¹	12 months 2006	12 months 2007	3 months 2008	Total
England/general	142,061	71,219	18,057	14,400	13,200	2,400	261,337
Wales	36,000	21,000	—	—	—	—	57,000
N Ireland	4,500	3,500	4,500	—	—	—	12,500
MP database	—	10,400	—	—	—	—	10,400
Public Accounts Committee	—	—	8,825	—	—	—	8,825
Party conference fees	—	24,636	—	—	—	—	24,636
Other	—	14,850	—	—	—	—	14,850
	182,561	145,605	31,382	14,400	13,200	2,400	389,548
¹ Citigate Public Affairs services to 2005 were purchased via Central Office of Information.
Note:
Citigate Public Affairs were taken over by Grayling Group in June 2007—sums paid to Grayling Group are therefore included for consistency

"The fees noted above covered the provision of the following services:"2003"Management of Ufi's attendance at the three main autumn party conferences.""Weekly provision of parliamentary and environmental monitoring on education and skills issues and policy.""Provision of ad hoc public affairs advice to the Chief Executive at that time.""Development and delivery of communications campaigns to Whitehall and Westminster audience to promote the contribution of learndirect to delivering the Government's skills agenda.""Provision of briefings on MPs to Ufi staff in preparation for visits by MPs to learndirect centres.""Building, populating and maintaining a database recording contact between Ufi and learndirect, and MPs through visits to centres and correspondence."2004"Management of attendance at the three main autumn party conferences.""Weekly provision of parliamentary and environmental monitoring on education and skills issues and policy.""Provision of ad hoc public affairs advice to the Chief Executive at that time.""Development and delivery of communications campaigns to Whitehall and Westminster audience to promote the contribution of learndirect to delivering the Government's skills agenda.""Provision of briefings on MPs to Ufi staff in preparation for visits by MPs to learndirect centres.""Building, populating and maintaining a database recording contact between Ufi and learndirect, and MPs through visits to centres and correspondence."2005"Preparation for Ufi's first appearance before the Public Accounts Committee (14 November 2005), including training of Ufi witnesses and background briefing on Committee members.""Building, populating and maintaining a database recording contact between Ufi and learndirect, and MPs through visits to centres and correspondence."2006"Building, populating and maintaining a database recording contact between Ufi and learndirect, and MPs through visits to centres and correspondence."2007"Building, populating and maintaining a database recording contact between Ufi and learndirect, and MPs through visits to centres and correspondence."2008"Building, populating and maintaining a database recording contact between Ufi and learndirect and MPs through visits to centres and correspondence.""I believe this information answers the Parliamentary Question you posed on 24 April 2008."

Date

13 May 2008

Reference

475 c1484-6W; 202263

House

House of Commons

United Kingdom Accreditation Service: Grayling Political Strategy

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what payments (a) the United Kingdom Accreditation Service and (b) UFi made to Grayling Political Strategy in each of the last five years; and on what date and for what purpose the payment was made in each case.

Asked by

Greg Clark (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

1 May 2008

Reference

475 c686-7W; 202264

House

House of Commons

UfI: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what the (a) budgetary allocations and (b) outturn was for University for Industry (including learndirect) in (i) 2004-05, (ii) 2005-06 and (iii) 2006-07.

Asked by

Lord Willetts (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 October 2007

Reference

161246; 465 c1127W

House

House of Commons

University for Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much has been spent on the University for Industry in each year since it opened; how many people graduated in each year; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Mark Hoban (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

17 July 2006

Reference

85557; 449 c203-5W;449 c203-4W

House

House of Commons

Treasury minute on the twenty second, twenty third and twenty fifth to twenty eighth reports from the Public Accounts Committee session 2005-06 (HC 535, HC 681, HC 602, HC 667, HC 590 and HC 706).

Type

Command papers

Date

26 April 2006

Reference

Cm 6775

House

House of Commons

University for Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what progress has been made towards the establishment of the University for Industry included in the Government's 1997 manifesto; and if she will make a statement.

Asked by

John Hayes (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 February 2006

Reference

48132; 442 c1027-8W;442 c1027-8W

House

House of Commons

Extending learning through technology: UfI and the Learndirect service. Public Accounts Committee twenty-eighth report with proceedings, evidence (HC 706-i not printed separately) and appendices.

Type

Select Committee reports; House of Commons papers; Parliamentary committees

Committee

Committee of Public Accounts

Notes

See also PAC report HC 706 2005-06

Date

31 October 2005

Reference

HC 460 2005-06

House

House of Commons

Immigration

My honourable friend the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality (Tony McNulty) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. In February 2005 the Government published Controlling our Borders: Making Migration Work for Britain, a five-year strategy for immigration and asylum. I would like to update the House today on progress...

Member

Baroness Scotland of Asthal (Labour)

Department

Home Office

Type

Written statements

Date

19 July 2005

Reference

673 c77-9WS

House

House of Lords

Immigration

In February 2005, the Government published ““Controlling our Borders: Making migration work for Britain””, a five-year strategy for immigration and asylum. I would like to update the House today on progress in three key areas: the development of a points-based scheme for managed migration; the introduction of new policies on...

Member

Tony McNulty (Labour)

Department

Home Office

Type

Written statements

Date

19 July 2005

Reference

436 c66-8WS

House

House of Commons

Sainsbury of Turville, Lord

How much money has been spent to date on the University for Industry, including its operating arm learndirect, since its establishment. [HL 1529]. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Lord Patten (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 March 2005

Reference

670 c76WA; HL 1529

House

House of Lords

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the full-time equivalent headcount of the (a) Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, (b) Higher Education Statistics Agency, (c) Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, (d) Learning and Skills Council, (e) University for Industry and (f) Learn Direct was in each year...

Asked by

Tim Yeo (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

8 June 2004

For answer on

29 June 2004

Answered on

29 June 2004

Mr. Yeo: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the full-time equivalent headcount of the (a) Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, (b) Higher Education Statistics Agency, (c) Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, (d) Learning and Skills Council, (e) University for Industry and (f) Learn Direct was in each year since 1997; and how much funding was allocated to each body in each year. [178207] Mr. Stephen Twigg: The information requested is provided as follows. The Learning and Skills Council became operational in 2001 and University for Industry in 1999. The Higher Education Statistics Agency is a non- profit making company funded from the publicly funded HE institutions in the UK. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is a company limited by guarantee and registered charity funded by a capitation fee from institutions, by applicant fees and by marketing services for higher education. They do not directly receive any public funding. Information for the University for Industry includes head office and regional staff engaged with the learndirect Information and Advice Service (IAS). UfI also contracts out IAS services to three companies, but these are not included. Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Funding (£ million) Full-time equivalent staff numbers 1997-98 32.6 n/a 1998-99 54.8 n/a 1999-2000 58.3 n/a 2000-01 59.7 n/a 2001-02 71.2 n/a 2002-03 77.8 578 2003-04 81.7 525 2004-05 135.8 522 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Full-time equivalent staff numbers 1997/98 35 1998/99 38 1999/2000 41 2000/01 41 2001/02 44 2002/03 44 2003/04 45 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Full-time equivalent staff numbers 1997/98 301 1998/99 300 1999/2000 310 2000/01 317 2001/02 336 2002/03 359 2003/04 320 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Learning and Skills Council (LSC) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Funding (£ million) Full-time equivalent staff numbers 2001/02 5,391.3 4,427 2002/03 7,475.9 4,592 2003/04 8,366.7 4,057 2004/05 8,692.0 3,947 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. University for Industry (UfI) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Funding (£ million) Full-time equivalent staff numbers 1999/2000 41.8 97 2000/01 58.2 194 2001/02 56.7 261 2002/03 50.2 309 2003/04 47.0 354 2004/05 44.0 356 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. Funding figures from 1997-98 to 2002-03 are final expenditure in each year. 2003-04 covers latest forecast expenditure and 2004-05 latest planned expenditure. 2. Information is for financial years (April to March) apart from HESA and UCAS which operate on academic years (August to July). 3. For QCA, full-time equivalent staff numbers are not available before 2002-03. 4. Full-time equivalent staff numbers for HESA, UCAS and UfI are the average for the year. For UCAS, 2002/03 and 2003/04 figures are staff in post as at June each year. 5. Full-time equivalent staff numbers for QCA and LSC are staff in post at 31 March each year and 31 May in 2004-05.

Date

29 June 2004

Reference

178207; 423 c241-3W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much funding has been allocated for (a) marketing, (b) consultants, (c) advertising, (d) administration and (e) buildings for (i) the University for Industry, (ii) the learning and skills councils and (iii) the Connexions service, broken down by (A) centrally...

Asked by

Tim Collins (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

19 April 2004

For answer on

5 May 2004

Answered on

5 May 2004

Mr. Collins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much funding has been allocated for (a) marketing, (b) consultants, (c) advertising, (d) administration and (e) buildings for (i) the University for Industry, (ii) the learning and skills councils and (iii) the Connexions service, broken down by (A) centrally and (B) locally-allocated funds, in each year since 1997. [167575] Mr. Charles Clarke: The information is as follows: (i) Ufi Ufi, launched in 2000, receives an annual grant from my Department which funds their infrastructure and operating costs such as product development. My Department does not specify the exact amount of money which should be allocated by Ufi on individual items. Figures have however, been provided in Table (a) following which show the funds expended by Ufi for marketing, consultants, advertising, administration and buildings provided on a central basis in each of the financial years since 1999. Much of the marketing developed centrally is also used locally by Ufi/ learndirect centres and hubs. Marketing and advertising at local level does however remain the responsibility of Ufi/learndirect hubs and centres, many of which are private organisations who set their budgets accordingly. No central information is held on this local expenditure. Also, Ufi uses consultants to support the development of the national Ufi/learndirect network and does not allocate consultancy budgets at local level. Table (a) Ufi _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Funding allocated--centrally (£000) Financial year 1990-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 17 months1 12 months 12 months 12 months 12 months 12 months Actual Actual Actual Actual Actual Budget (a) Marketing2 1,969 8,224 9,767 10,126 10,156 8,721 (b) Consultants 560 741 1,117 1,637 2,927 389 (c) Advertising2 2,990 12,474 12,727 8,652 11,112 9,542 (d) Administration 9,408 12,418 17,309 20,106 21,435 25,007 (e) Buildings3 841 1,104 1,120 1,263 1,473 1,631 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Ufi Limited's first statutory reporting period was 17 months to 31 March 2000. The figures used are consistent with information filed with Companies House. 2 The figures provided for 2004-05 have not been finalised and the analysis is based on the 2003-04 ratio. 3 Accommodation related costs such as rent, rates, facilities management. (ii) Learning and Skills Council This is a matter for the Learning and Skills Council. I have therefore asked Mark Haysom, the Council's Chief Executive, to write to the hon. Gentleman with the information requested and to place a copy of his reply in the Library. (iii) Connexions Service (A) Central (a) and (c) Marketing and Advertising The following table shows the amounts allocated in each year since the launch of Connexions in April 2001 for centrally-managed marketing and advertising activity in support of the Connexions Service. (b) Consultants No funding is allocated specifically for spending on consultants either nationally or regionally. However, consultants are engaged where this is judged to be the most cost-effective method of achieving objectives. (d) Administration Table (b) following shows the amounts allocated in each year since the launch of Connexions in April 2001 for the salaries and associated administrative costs of staff managing Connexions and a range of associated initiatives. In addition, the table also shows those amounts allocated to regional Government Offices for the salary and associated administration costs of their staff managing Connexions. (e) Buildings It is not possible to disaggregate the building costs associated with DfES Head Office staff working on Connexions from the costs of other Departmental staff using the same head office building, nor those costs associated with Government Office staff working on Connexions from those associated with other Government Office staff. Table (b) Connexions service _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Funding allocated--centrally (£000) Financial year 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 (a) Marketing -- -- 1,000 1,900 850 1-- (b) Consultants -- -- 2n/a 2n/a 2n/a 2n/a (c) Advertising -- -- 4 1,678 2,861 tbc (d) Administration Head Office3 -- -- 5,637 5,784 6,098 tbc Government Office -- -- 2,500 2,750 2,625 2,500 (e) buildings -- -- 4n/a 4n/a 4n/a 4n/a _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 No allocation. 2 No element of funding is earmarked specifically for this purpose. 3 Head Office (HO) administration figures cover the costs of all staff working on Connexions and a range of associated policies and programmes. It is not possible to disaggregate the costs of staff working specifically in support of Connexions. 4 It is not possible to disaggregate costs of HO/GO staff working on Connexions. (B) Local Local Connexions Partnerships have the flexibility to use their funding in a way which best meets local needs; no part of the funding that is allocated to them is ring- fenced for specific activities or purposes such as administration, buildings, marketing, advertising or consultants.

Date

5 May 2004

Reference

420 c1574-6W; 167575

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether the (a) Sector Skills Development Agency and (b) the University for Industry is registered to (i) the ISO 9000:2000 standard requirement and (ii) Investors In People standards.

Asked by

Michael Fabricant (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 March 2004

Reference

159748; 418 c1741-2W;418 c1743-4W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, which targets have been set by Government for the University for Industry; and what progress has been made in meeting them. - Inc table. (Holding answer 26 January 2004).

Asked by

Lord Willis of Knaresborough (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

21 January 2004

For answer on

30 January 2004

Answered on

30 January 2004

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which targets have been set by Government for the University for Industry; and what progress has been made in meeting them. [150777] Mr. Ivan Lewis: [holding answer 26 January 2004]: Stretching targets are agreed annually between my Department and Ufi. They are set at challenging levels and are designed to build upon the achievements of previous years and to maintain Ufi's rapid progress. The attached table (Annex 1) shows the targets agreed for 2003-04 and the progress made towards them by 31 December 2003. Annex 1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Definition 2003-04 Target Position at 31 December 2003 Number of Learners The total number of learners 450,000 learners 350,953 starting learndirect courses in 2003-04. Number of enrolments The total number of enrolments 1 million enrolments 602,308 on learndirect courses in 2003-04 New learners 60 per cent. of learners 60 per cent. of learners 50 per cent. starting their first learndirect course are `new learners' (i.e. learners that have not engaged in any other learning in the three years prior to registering with learndirect Workforce Development (1) SMEs Numbers of SMEs sponsoring one 70,000 SMEs engaged 34,907 or more of their employers on learndirect courses Workforce Development (2) SMEs Number of employees in SMEs 200,000 enrolments on 118,575 enrolling on learndirect learndirect courses courses Course Portfolio Diversification Number of Business and 112,000 enrolments 90,167 Management course enrolments Skills for Life achievement Refers only to achievement of 8,000 achievements 541 qualifications in England that can be counted towards the Government's 750,000 PSA Skills for Life Target Income generation Ufi will generate £3.7 million £3.7 million £995,018 from the sale of courses unsubsidised with public money to employers and to individuals LSC Budget Management Ufi will use its best By end 31 March 2004, no less £104,338,468 endeavours to use all the LSC than £151 million of the £159.5 funding allocated for million made available by the learndirect provision LSC for learndirect provision in the financial year 2003-04 shall have been used for the funding of learndirect provision Quality: Hubs and Centres In 2003-04 Ufi/learndirect will Average ALI inspection grade of 2.89 achieve an average inspection 2.5 grade awarded by the Adult Learning Inspectorate of 2.5 Quality: Learner Satisfaction The percentage of learners 87 per cent. 85 per cent. satisfied with learndirect Users of the learndirect A total of number of helpline 4.7 million 3,726,801 Information and Advice Service callers, web users, emails received and responded to and webchats held Callers from within Government Calls received by learndirect 550,000 240,304 target range call centres from callers who are eligible to count towards the Government's level 2 PSA target Quality Information and Advice Percentage canvassed through a 87 per cent. 93 per cent. Service rolling customer satisfaction survey who agreed with the statement: "the overall quality of the service was good" (applicable to all IAS users as defined by agreed volume targets) _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Date

30 January 2004

Reference

150777; 417 c580W

House

House of Commons

£000
	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Ufl / Leardirect Participation	—	—	—	189,834	129,232	100,154
Ufl/Leardirect Advice Marketing and Infrastructure	—	—	—	19,987	41,444	55,451
Total	113,494	192,090	159,735	209,821	170,676	155,605

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Type

House

Session

Year

Department

Member

Primary member

Answering member

Legislative stage

Legislation

Subject

Publisher

£ million
	Planned expenditure	Outturn
2004-05	n/a	182
2005-06	201	201
2006-07	176	171
n/a = not available

	£ million
2001-02	153.7
2002-03	164.9
2003-04	239.6
2004-05	181.9
2005-06	¹209.4
2006-07	²176.3
¹ Estimated outturn ² Planned