§ Mr. ChaytorTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what proportion of section 11 funding in each of the participating local education authorities is currently used to support adult education; [66611]
(2) if he will list each local education authority currently using section 11 funding to support adult education; [66613]
(3) what proportion of section 11 funding is currently used to support adult education; [66612]
(4) what is the total amount of section 11 grant for the financial year 1998–99. [66614]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienSection 11 grant funds projects in education and in other service areas including social services and housing. Total provision in the current financial year is £82.68 million. Projects with 118 local education authorities, as well as grant-maintained schools and colleges in the further education sector, cover a range of educational activity. Some local education authority projects principally concerned with other activities (eg English language support for school pupils whose first language is not English) include elements of adult education (eg family literacy work delivered through schools). Precise disaggregation of costs in such cases is difficult. The table lists local education authorities which have specific adult education projects; and shows, in relation to the 1998–99 financial year, the potential grant cost of these projects as a percentage of the total potential grant cost of the local education authority's section 11 projects. The potential grant cost of specific adult education projects in relation to the 1998–99 financial year represents 1.03 per cent. of the total potential grant cost of local education authorities' projects, and 0.95 per cent. of the total potential grant cost across the section 11 programme as a whole.
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Local education authorities with specific adult education projects, showing the potential grant cost of these projects in relation to 1998–99 as a proportion of the total potential grant cost of the authority's projects LEA Percentage Barking & Dagenham 4.17 Bolton 13.21 Brent 13.86 Bristol 1.79 Bromley 43.75 Croydon 6.51 Hillingdon 12.56 Kent 8.72
Local education authorities with specific adult education projects, showing the potential grant cost of these projects in relation to 1998–99 as a proportion of the total potential grant cost of the authority's projects LEA Percentage Leeds 3.04 Leicester 1.19 Manchester 9.35 Norfolk 13.78 Peterborough1 4.26 Redbridge 4.34 Suffolk 5.44 1Most section 11-funded provision in Peterborough is covered by a project managed by Cambridgeshire, which pre-dated local government reorganisation. The table reflects the estimated potential grant cost of posts in Peterborough under that project. Note:
In addition, some funding for adult education is currently paid under projects with further education colleges. In Birmingham, such funding would amount to 4.49 per cent. of the local education authority's funding if paid direct.