Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 11 July 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how much funding his Department provided to TUC Education in each of the last 10 years.
Since April 2010, the Skills Funding Agency has been responsible for funding post-19 further education (FE) and skills provision delivered through FE colleges and training organisations (the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) had this responsibility from 2001).
Each academic year, FE colleges and training organisations receive a post-19 funding allocation at the programme level (for example budgets for adult skills, adult safeguarded learning and/or offender learning and skills). As funding is not allocated at the learning aim level the amount of money spent on TUC learning aims is not reported centrally by the Skills Funding Agency (or the LSC previously).
From the 2011/12 academic year we have introduced a single adult skills budget. This will provide FE colleges and training organisations with the flexibility to offer the range and balance of programmes, from basic skills to higher-level skills, in the mode of delivery that will best meet the needs of learners, employers and communities (classroom, workshop, online and in the workplace).
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