HC Deb 30 March 2004 vol 419 cc1389-90W
Mr. Swire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much Devon schools have received in Standards Fund Grant in each year since its introduction. [164786]

Mr. Miliband

Standards Fund grants are allocated to local education authorities (LEAs), not directly to schools. It is not possible to identify separately the amounts allocated to schools by LEAs. The following table shows allocations for the Standards Fund for Devon local education authority since the Standards Fund was introduced in 1998–99. The allocations include both Government and local authority contributions. The figures for 1998–99 to 2002–03 include class size grant, worth £2.9 million in 2002–03. Since 2003–04, funding for class size grant is distributed via Education Formula Spending Shares (EFSS).

Standards fund allocations to Devon local education authority
£million
Revenue Capital
1998–99 8.7 2.8
1999–2000 9.7 8.7
2000–01 18.2 16.4
2001–02 21.9 22.2
2002–03 25.4 20.4
2003–04 20.2 23.1

Mr. Swire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was spent on adult(a) literacy and (b) numeracy in Devon Local Education Authority in each of the last seven years. [164797]

Mr. Ivan Lewis

The estimated total spend on Skills For Life (the Government's strategy for the literacy, language and numeracy needs of all post-16 learners from pre-entry level up to and including level 2) and on Key Skills (essential skills of communication, application of number and information technology), from April 2001 to July 2003, in the Devon and Cornwall Learning and Skills Council (LSC) area is set out in the table:

Devon and Cornwall Learning and Skills Council (LSC)
£000
Basic skills Key skills
April to July 20011 3,131 714
August 2001 to July 2002 4,775 1,140
August 2002 to July 2003 6,289 1,388
1 The figures for April to July 2001 include costs incurred from August 2000 on learning aims continuing into April 2001

From the information available to the LSC it has not been feasible to obtain estimates at constituency level or separate figures by subject without incurring disproportionate cost. Likewise it has not been feasible to obtain comparable figures for periods before April 2001 when the Skills for Life strategy was launched and the LSC was formed, but information shows it was considerably less than at present.