HC Deb 24 January 1995 vol 253 cc172-3W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list the grants given to non-governmental organisations by her Department in each year since 1990.

Mr. Boswell

The grants given to the non-departmental public bodies sponsored by the Department are listed in the table. Those made to the research councils and to the Sports Council, formerly sponsored by the then Department of Education and Science and now by the Office of Public service and Science and the Department of National Heritage respectively, are published in the appropriation accounts, copies of which are in the Library.

1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95
£ million outturn estimate
Universities Funding Council7 1,836.708 1,782.142 1,806.426
Higher Education Funding Council for England8 0.500 2,810.626 3,436.076
Further Education Funding Council8 24.417 2,706.066 2,847.058
Funding Agency for Schools9 0.674 237.026
Teacher Training Agency10 1.932
Special Educational Needs Tribunal11 0.220
1Merged with British Council December 1993. Henceforth sponsored by Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
2Subsumed in Further Education Funding Council grant from 1993–94.
3Wound up in 1991 and replaced by the National Youth Agency.
4Established April 1991 incorporating National Youth Bureau and Council for Education and Training in Community Work.
5Wound up in 1993.
6Established October 1993 incorporating School Examinations and Assessment Council and National Curriculum Council.
7Wound up March 1993.
8Established April 1993. Preparatory costs in 1992–93.
9Established April 1994. Preparatory costs in 1993–94. 1994–95 estimate net of annual maintenance grants, which are recouped in full from local education authorities, and loan repayments.
10Established September 1994. Preparatory costs only.
11Established September 1994. Programme costs only.

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