To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what has been the funding allocations to colleges of further education in each of the education and library boards since 1 April 1982 to 31 March 1992.

The information is as follows:

£000s
	Belfast	Western	North-Eastern	South-Eastern	Southern
1982–83	3,683	1,903	2,878	2,313	3,347
1983–84	3,838	1,961	3,041	2,300	2,907
1984–85	3,904	2,153	2,963	2,545	2,866

	Belfast	Western	North-Eastern	South-Eastern	Southern
1985–86	3,805	2,381	3,252	2,786	2,974
1986–87	4,018	2,489	3,270	2,948	3,443
1987–88	4,191	2,820	3,596	3,137	4,483
1988–89	5,678	3,307	3,975	3,856	5,662
1989–90	6,265	3,806	4,405	4,162	7,026
1990–91	6,472	4,121	4,896	4,655	8,620
1991–92	17,510	11,513	14,763	13,292	15,169

Notes:1. The figures represent recurrent and capital expenditure, for the years 1982–83 to 1989–90 they are taken from the boards' audited accounts and for 1990–91 from the unaudited accounts.2. The figures for 1991–92 are the boards' further and higher education budgets as stated in their financial schemes. Following the introduction of local management of colleges on 1/4/91 these budgets include provision for full time teachers' salaries, which had previously been paid directly by the Department of Education for Northern Ireland.