To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many colleges of further education are located in each Learning and Skills Council area. [129182]
The information requested is provided in the table:
| Local LSC name | Number |
| Bedfordshire and Luton | 4 |
| Berkshire | 5 |
| Birmingham and Solihull | 11 |
| Black Country | 7 |
| Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole | 3 |
| Cambridgeshire | 6 |
| Cheshire and Warrington | 8 |
| County Durham | 4 |
| Coventry and Warwickshire | 7 |
| Cumbria | 5 |
| Derbyshire | 3 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 10 |
| Essex | 10 |
Local LSC name
| Number
|
| Gloucestershire | 5 |
| Greater Manchester | 27 |
| Greater Merseyside | 11 |
| Hampshire and Isle Of Wight | 22 |
| Herefordshire and Worcestershire | 9 |
| Hertfordshire | 4 |
| Humberside | 9 |
| Kent and Medway | 8 |
| Lancashire | 13 |
| Leicestershire | 8 |
| Lincolnshire and Rutland | 4 |
| London Central | 14 |
| London East | 14 |
| London North | 9 |
| London South | 11 |
| London West | 7 |
| Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire | 8 |
| Norfolk | 6 |
| North Yorkshire | 7 |
| Northamptonshire | 4 |
| Northumberland | 1 |
| Nottinghamshire | 9 |
| Shropshire | 6 |
| Somerset | 6 |
| South Yorkshire | 8 |
| Staffordshire | 9 |
| Suffolk | 4 |
| Surrey | 11 |
| Sussex | 14 |
| Tees Valley | 12 |
| Tyne and Wear | 6 |
| West of England | 6 |
| West Yorkshire | 18 |
| Wiltshire and Swindon | 4 |
| Total | 397 |
Notes
1. In Greater Manchester the Co-operative College and Bridge College are independent and do not receive FE funding from the LSC. However, they have the legal status of FE colleges and are therefore included in the numbers above.
2. In North Yorkshire there is a similar situation with Henshaw's College. This does not receive FE funding from the LSC but is an FE college in legal terms.
3. In Nottinghamshire, Welbeck College is the MOD College for the Army. This is funded by the MOD but has the legal status of an FE college.
Source:
Provider Performance Data base—DIES, Provider Plus Governance and Organisation Team—DIES, and the LSC's Provider Information Management System, September 2003.