The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (and its predecessors) took responsibility for offender learning from the start of the 2001-02 financial year.
The budget for education in prisons since then has been:
Financial year Budget (£ million) 2001-02 57 2002-03 73 2003-04 116 2004-05 116 2005-06 141 2006-07 146 2007-08 156
These totals include prison libraries, Heads of Learning and Skills, capital and funds passed to the Youth Justice Board for education in young offender institutions.