Higher Education Funding Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s annual budget was spent on the provision of foundation degrees in each year since the introduction of that qualification. (105521)

Figures are only available for the last three years from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and are shown in the following table:

*PercentagePercentage£ million*
	As proportion of mainstream T funding	As proportion of total HEFCE grant	HEFCE mainstream T funding for FDs
2004-05	3.1	1.9	111
2005-06	4.3	2.5	157
2006-07	5.0	2.9	193

Volume 454: debated on Monday 11 December 2006