To ask the Secretary of State for Education pursuant to the answer of 10 March 2011, Official Report, column 1234W, on the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Schools: finance, what assessment his Department has made of the cost effectiveness of funding allocated to the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Schools in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11.

The Department's Internal Audit Unit has examined how the allocated funding was used by the National Resource Centre to ensure it was being spent for the purposes for which it was awarded. No issues were identified and no other evaluation of the use of this funding has taken place.