Education and Skills written question – answered at on 5 January 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list the resources allocated by central Government to non-vocational community education in the years 1997–98 to 2003–04.
I have set out in the following tables figures for expenditure as set by central Government for (i) adult and community learning run through local education authorities; (ii) learndirect; and (iii) Skills for Life. Together these equate most closely to non-vocational community education.
Date | Funding (£ million)(15) |
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2000–01 | 145 |
2001–02 | 153 |
2002–03 | 183 |
2003–04 | 206 |
(15) Annual budget, by financial year, on adult and community learning run through local education authorities (recurrent figures). The figures for 2002–03 and 2003–04 include the budgets for neighbourhood learning and family learning, starting from a nil base in 2001–02. Prior to 2000–01, national figures are not available for adult and community learning as responsibility adult and community learning rested with local education authorities.
Date (academic year) | Funding (£ million)(16) |
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1999/2000 | 5 (pilot) |
2000/01 | 49 |
2001/02 | 134 |
2002/03 | 171 |
2003/04 | 178 |
(16) Figures for learndirect do not go back further than 1999/2000, as it was not in existence before that date.
Date (academic year) | Funding (£ million)(17) |
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2001/02 | 253 |
2002/03 | 259 |
2003/04 | 290 |
(17) Figures do not go back before 2001/02 as the Skills for Life programme began in 2001.
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