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To ask Her Majesty's Government (a) what are the contracts of work currently being undertaken by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service; (b) what is the start date of each contract; (c) what work the contract entails; (d) what is the financial value of each contract; and (e) where the contract has been sub-contracted, which company is responsible for delivering the work.[HL3291]
Full details of the contracts of work currently being undertaken by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service are contained in Annex 1.
LSIS sub-contracted work—worth over £1 million Contract Lead Contractor Consortium Members Start Date Current Value Work Content Beacons and STARs Nord Anglia None April 2007 £6,500,000 Awards for outstanding providers and practitioners Improvement Adviser Service Tribal None April 2008 £7,800,000 Provider improvement including intervention Support for Excellence Deloitte Morgan Webb Education August 2007 £3,500,000 Peer Review and Development ERIQ—Extending the Reach and Improving the Quality of FLLN Tribal None February 2009 £2,200,000 Supporting literacy and numeracy via family learning. Move On (to World Class Skills) Tribal None March 2009 £1,200,000 Improved delivery of skills for life within train to gain following Ofsted report Skills for Life CfBT NRDC/LLU+ NIACE LSN September 2006 £8,000,000 Improving basic literacy and numeracy provision Diploma Support—Phase 2 SSAT LSN/The Workshop/Pearson/Hedra April 2008 £52,000,000 Supporting the introduction of new 14-19 qualifications Functional Skills for Adults LSN None October 2007 £2,250,000 Supporting the introduction of new functional skills qualifications for adults Functional Skills LSN None December 2006 £6,200,000 Supporting the introduction of new functional skills qualifications for 14-19 year-olds General Qualifications SSAT The 157 Group/SFCF/AOC/The Workshop January 2009 £1,950,000 Improved approaches to A levels and in particular the extended project Post-16 Citizenship LSN None September 2006 £3,700,000 Supporting the introduction of active citizenship provision in post-16 providers Qualification Reform Support LSN None October 2007 £2,400,000 Supporting the introduction of the new Qualifications and Curriculum Framework World Class Skills KPMG LSN/City & Guilds/AOC/ALP/Sales Insight May 2008 £13,500,000 Programme to support providers improve their engagement with employers STEM Tribal NCETM/Royal Academy of Engineering July 2008 £4,000,000 Specialist Support for teaching and learning in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics provision SLC (Subject Learning Coach Programme) Nord Anglia BDP/Desq Illumina June 2008 £13,700,000 Supporting the improvement of teaching and learning in specified subject areas via resources, networks and the training of subject learning coaches e-CPD—Online continuing professional development BDP ALT/DCTPN/North Hertfordshire and South Devon Colleges of Further Education/Derbyshire Adult and Community Education Service September 2008 £2,500,000 A programme of training for e-CPD champions within providers CETTs—Centres for Excellence in Teacher Training Northumbria University/ACER/South Leicestershire College/University of Huddersfield/London Institute of Education/University of Plymouth/Newcastle College/University of Sunderland/Learning South West/University of Warwick/Oxford Brookes University (Many linked organisations) April 2007 £3,000,000 Support for initial [FE] teacher training and post qualifying CPD Healthy FE Tribal None April 2009 £1,000,000 Promoting healthy life styles within further education Excellence Gateway Serco None April 2008 £3,000,000 A dissemination platform for FE materials and advice and effective practice
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To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills provides to the Learning and Skills Improvement Service and what proportion this constitutes of the total budget of the Learning and Skills Improvement Service.[HL3292]
In 2008-09 DIUS funding was £99 million which represented 68 per cent of the total Learning and Skills Improvement Service income.
In 2009-10 DIUS funding is estimated at £96 million which represents 71 per cent of the total Learning and Skills Improvement Service income.
In 2010-11 funding allocations have not been formally confirmed.