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Students: Finance

Volume 487: debated on Monday 9 February 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many Perfect Gift vouchers to help with the costs of further education have been sold (a) in each region and (b) by each college. (251128)

[holding answer 28 January 2009]: The Perfect Gift scheme was launched as a pilot project in October 2007 in nine further education colleges across England (one college per Learning and Skills Council region). The following table sets out the number of gift vouchers sold by each of the participating colleges:

College

Region

Number of vouchers sold

Warwickshire College

West Midlands

18

New College Nottingham

East Midlands

1

College of North East London

London

0

Gateshead College

North East

0

West Herts College

East of England

0

York College

Yorks and Humberside

0

Blackpool and Fylde College

North West

0

Chichester College

South East

0

Filton College (Bristol)

South West

0

Total Take-up

19