HC Deb 08 September 2003 vol 410 cc130-1W
Mr. Gibb

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much funding the Department provided to the National Foundation for Educational Research in each year since 1990; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the Foundation's document, Sounds before letters: final evaluation of POPAT. [127199]

Alan Johnson

Information on funding provided to the national Foundation for Educational Research is only available from 1995. The cost of providing information prior to this date would be disproportionate. The funding provided by the Department each year from April 1995 is as follows.

£
Funding provided by the Department
1995 312,808
1996 307,100
1997 200,984
1998 311,924
1999 759,209
2000 304,547
2001 319,090
2002 104,943

The Department did not commission the National Foundation for Educational Research to evaluate POPAT.