Vocational Training: Finance
Business, Innovation and Skills
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Edward Vaizey (- Shadow Minister (Arts), Culture, Media and Sport; Wantage, Conservative)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will allow employee-responsive funding allocated for financial year 2010-11 by the Learning and Skills Council to be drawn down in financial year 2009-10 in order to pay for training being provided in that financial year.
Kevin Brennan (Minister of State (also in the Department for Business, Innovations and Skills), Department for Children, Schools and Families; Cardiff West, Labour)
Authority to spend or commit resource is agreed by Parliament through the estimates process which sets the expenditure limits for each Department one year at a time. Departments are not permitted to commit expenditure that exceeds these limits.
In November 2008 we set out the 2009-10 financial year allocation to the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). This showed an increase of nearly 15 per cent. in employer responsive (Train to Gain and Adult Apprenticeships) funding compared to 2008-09 financial year.
Funding allocations for 2010-11 financial year will be announced later this autumn.