Education Funding

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the (a) annual budget and (b) annual administrative cost of (i) the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment, (ii) the Regional Training Unit, (iii) the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools, (iv) the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education, (v) Comhairle na Gaelscolaiochta and (vi) each education and library board was in 2005-06. (100708)

The information requested is shown in the following table and includes funding provided by the Department of Education, the Department for Employment and Learning and the Department for Culture and Leisure:

*2005-06*
£000
	Annual budget	Annual administrative cost
BELB	230,185	5,337
NEELB	298,248	6,608
SEELB	272,156	2,896
SELB	312,345	5,541
WELB	312,603	4,663
CCMS	3,823	2,850
CCEA	¹19,419	27,284
RTU	3,050	1,829
NICIE	505	505
CnaG	533	522
¹ Balance in 2005-06 accounts includes £379,720 of deferred capital release.

Volume 453: debated on Thursday 23 November 2006