Sector Skills Councils: Finance

Mr. Willetts
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much funding has been allocated to each sector skills council in each of the last five years.

Kevin Brennan
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.

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|Sector Skills Councils           |2008/09|2007/08|2006/07|2005/06|2004/05|
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|Asset Skills                     |3,624  |4,537  |2,365  |2,131  |1,789  |
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|Automotive Skills (IMI)          |2,875  |3,079  |1,966  |1,690  |2,225  |
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|Cogent                           |2,545  |2,499  |1,938  |1,922  |2,080  |
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|ConstructionSkills               |3,801  |4,490  |2,972  |1,908  |3,166  |
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|Creative and Cultural Skills     |2,947  |1,782  |2,631  |2,193  |879    |
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|Energy and Utility Skills        |2,598  |3,211  |2,415  |1,879  |1,782  |
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|e-skills UK                      |3,331  |5,039  |6,774  |5,858  |5,594  |
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|Financial Services Skills Council|3,755  |3,199  |1,928  |2,033  |2,079  |
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|GoSkills                         |3,151  |2,373  |2,280  |2,058  |1,827  |
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|Government Skills                |1,737  |2,537  |1,802  |301    |49     |
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|Improve Ltd.                     |2,607  |2,229  |2,688  |2,021  |2,538  |
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|Lantra                           |3,653  |4,413  |2,272  |1,847  |2,569  |
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|Lifelong Learning UK             |2,511  |1,875  |1,954  |2,163  |1,533  |
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|People 1st                       |3,613  |2,790  |1,781  |1,910  |2,422  |
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|Proskills UK                     |2,828  |2,575  |2,376  |2,195  |307    |
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|Semta                            |3,610  |3,614  |3,659  |2,198  |2,937  |
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|Skillfast-UK                     |2,851  |3,487  |2,295  |2,048  |2,208  |
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|Skills for Care and Development  |2,079  |1,444  |2,035  |1,653  |569    |
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|Skills for Health                |2,799  |2,993  |2,646  |2,342  |1,809  |
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|Skills for Justice               |4,253  |3,283  |1,714  |1,878  |2,245  |
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|Skills for Logistics             |2,438  |1,940  |2,352  |2,127  |1,519  |
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|SkillsActive                     |3,314  |3,626  |2,596  |2,270  |1,876  |
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|Skillset                         |3,665  |3,807  |4,243  |2,199  |3,071  |
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|Skillsmart Retail                |3,013  |2,891  |2,553  |2,151  |2,640  |
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|SummitSkills                     |2,127  |2,648  |1,760  |1,608  |1,981  |
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