The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills provide grant in aid funding to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills to contract with sector skills councils for work on areas such as national occupational standards and labour market information. The funding provided to each sector skills council by the UK Commission, and its predecessor the Sector Skills Development Agency, in the last five years is given as follows.
Most sector skills councils also receive other funding from a range of sources, including other Government Departments.
Sector Skills Councils 2008/09 2007/08 2006/07 2005/06 2004/05 Asset Skills 3,624 4,537 2,365 2,131 1,789 Automotive Skills (IMI) 2,875 3,079 1,966 1,690 2,225 Cogent 2,545 2,499 1,938 1,922 2,080 ConstructionSkills 3,801 4,490 2,972 1,908 3,166 Creative and Cultural Skills 2,947 1,782 2,631 2,193 879 Energy and Utility Skills 2,598 3,211 2,415 1,879 1,782 e-skills UK 3,331 5,039 6,774 5,858 5,594 Financial Services Skills Council 3,755 3,199 1,928 2,033 2,079 GoSkills 3,151 2,373 2,280 2,058 1,827 Government Skills 1,737 2,537 1,802 301 49 Improve Ltd. 2,607 2,229 2,688 2,021 2,538 Lantra 3,653 4,413 2,272 1,847 2,569 Lifelong Learning UK 2,511 1,875 1,954 2,163 1,533 People 1st 3,613 2,790 1,781 1,910 2,422 Proskills UK 2,828 2,575 2,376 2,195 307 Semta 3,610 3,614 3,659 2,198 2,937 Skillfast-UK 2,851 3,487 2,295 2,048 2,208 Skills for Care and Development 2,079 1,444 2,035 1,653 569 Skills for Health 2,799 2,993 2,646 2,342 1,809 Skills for Justice 4,253 3,283 1,714 1,878 2,245 Skills for Logistics 2,438 1,940 2,352 2,127 1,519 SkillsActive 3,314 3,626 2,596 2,270 1,876 Skillset 3,665 3,807 4,243 2,199 3,071 Skillsmart Retail 3,013 2,891 2,553 2,151 2,640 SummitSkills 2,127 2,648 1,760 1,608 1,981