Adult Education: European Social Fund
(asked on 26th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the European Social Fund has contributed to adult education projects in each region in the last year.
The European Social Fund is allocated to the Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs).
The Education and Skills Funding Agency offers LEPs the service of procuring and managing European Social Fund contracts which deliver education and training on behalf of the LEPs.
The table below aggregates the LEP area expenditure into regions. A more detailed breakdown by LEP area is in the attached spreadsheet.
Region | ESF Paid to Providers in Academic Year | Total ESF Contracted with Providers Apr-16 to July-18 |
East Midlands | £7.27 | £50.39 |
East of England | £3.40 | £18.85 |
London | £28.86 | £82.19 |
North East | £10.83 | £46.86 |
North West | £13.75 | £84.37 |
South East | £4.78 | £32.07 |
South West | £5.72 | £39.45 |
West Midlands | £5.86 | £45.70 |
Yorkshire and The Humber | £5.53 | £42.10 |
Grand Total | £86.01 | £441.97 |
Figures rounded to the nearest £10,000.
The Big Lottery Fund and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are also organisations with which LEPs can agree to deliver other projects eligible for European Social Fund. Additionally, Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service delivers European Social Fund projects. Other organisations may make direct bids to deliver European Social Fund to the European Social Fund Managing Authority (which is part of the DWP).