Basic Skills Agency (Hansard, 22 June 2004)

§ Mr. Ivan Lewis

The total funding provided to the Basic Skills Agency by the Department for each of the years from 1999–2000 to 2003–04, along with the funding currently agreed for 2004–05, is given in the following table:

Basic Skills Agency spend, 1999–2004
£
	Core grant	Projects	Total
1999–2000	7,374,500.00	00.00	7,374,500.00
2000–01	16,699,289.00	6,888.88	16,706,177.88
2001–02	21,267,884.00	21,29S,878.68	42,566,762.68
2002–03	5,119,740.00	41,525,208.12	46,644,948.12
2003–04	5.412,000.00	40,310,969.77	45,742,969.77
2004–05	5.467,000.00	1,281,394.00	6,748,394.00

A summary of the headline projects that have been funded for each of the years from 1999–2000 is given in the following table:

	Headline projects
1999–2000	Literacy and Numeracy strategies and Basic Skills related work
2000–01	Family Literacy and Numeracy Programmes; NVOPP (the National Voluntary Organisations Partnership Programme); Intensive Teacher Training
2001–02	Financial Literacy; NVOPP; Community Based ESOL; Teacher Training; Family Programmes; Workplace Programmes; Offenders Learning and Skills Unit 'Link-Up' project, training prison education staff
2002–03	Financial Literacy; Basic Skills Brokerage Scheme Phase II, the roll-out of the Brokerage Scheme; basic skills development with Sector Skills Councils; NVOPP. Other

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	Headline projects
	projects, won by tender, include Link Up (training volunteer adult learner supporters), and developing diagnostic assessment tools for literacy, numeracy and ESOL
2003–04	Financial Literacy; Skills for Families; Step in to Learning (customised training and development programme for staff in Sure Start, Children's Centres and early years settings); Link Up; and a database of support links between employers and providers
2004–05	QUIP (the Quality Improvement Programme) is included in the Core Grant. Projects include Financial Literacy and Step in to Learning