§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much capital was made available to(a) FE and (b) HE in each of the years 1992–93 to 2001–02 as expressed at 2001–02 prices. [65396]
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§ Margaret HodgeThe capital funding made available was as follows:
£ million Capital funding FE1 Capital funding HE1 1992–93 171 281 1993–94 185 389 1994–95 189 387 1995–96 187 409 1996–97 0 0 1997–98 0 0 1998–99 0 0 1999–2000 42 167 2000–01 56 243 2001–022 136 381 1 2001–02 prices 2 Estimated Notes
- 1. All figures are in 2001–02 prices, are rounded to £ million and exclude student loans.
- 2. All figures from 1992–93 to 2000–01 cover the separately identified capital grants made available by the Department to the Funding Councils.
- 3. The division between FE and HE in 1992–93 is based on allocations made by the then Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council (PCFC) and the Universities Funding Council (UFC) respectively.
- 4. The figure for HE in 1992–93 includes £9 million expenditure Higher Education outside of the Universities Funding Council.
- 5. For 1996–97,1997–98 and 1998–99 no separate capital payments were made and the capital was funded from the Councils' allocations and not disaggregated.
- 6. For 1999–2000 and 2000–01, figures cover some additional capital grants made available separately by the Department. Figures for HE in the years 1999–2000 to 2001–02 include moneys made available to higher education institutions by the Office of Science and Technology (OST) through the Joint Infrastructure Fund (JIF).
- 7. The figures for 2001–02 cover total capital expenditure by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and Higher Education Funding Council (HEFC) themselves which, under resource budgeting form 2001–02, counts as departmental expenditure.