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Higher Education: Finance

Volume 486: debated on Thursday 22 January 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills when he plans to send the annual grant letter to the Higher Education Funding Council for England for 2009-10. (250215)

The annual grant letter to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) for 2009-10 was published today 22 January 2009. I have placed a copy in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills if he will list each successful application to the Higher Education Funding Council for England for projects (a) to be funded, (b) to be partly-funded and (c) to be funded by loans via the strategic development fund during (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008; and how much funding was sought in each case. (250446)

The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has published a list of projects funded by the Strategic Development Fund on its website at:

http://www.hefce.ac.uk/finance/fundinghe/sdf/

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what applications to the Higher Education Funding Council for England for projects (a) to be funded, (b) to be partly funded and (c) to be loan funded via the Strategic Development Fund were not accepted during (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008. (250538)

This information is not held in the form requested. Proposals to the Strategic Development Fund are developed iteratively between the HEIs and the Council's institutional teams, sometimes over a lengthy period. Projects that then come forward for funding have been thoroughly tested and hence are very rarely rejected. HEFCE's institutional teams have regular informal discussions with HEIs to discuss emerging proposals and many are turned back at that stage, and are not recorded.