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Charity Research Support Fund

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills (1) if he will consider providing the Charity Research Support Fund as a fixed percentage uplift based on the level of funding received by universities from charities; [151420]

(2) what factors were taken into account in calculating how much Charity Research Support Fund funding to make available to universities in each financial year up to 2012; [151421]

(3) how much Charity Research Support Fund funding he plans to make available to universities in each financial year up to 2012. [151422]

Bill Rammell: The Charity Research Support Fund is worth £180 million in the current year. Funding allocations for future years will be announced at the appropriate time.

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Departments: Ministerial Red Boxes

John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many ministerial red boxes the Department has bought since establishment; what the cost of each was; who the suppliers were; and what tendering process was used in selecting them. [150297]

Mr. Lammy: None.

Departments: Targets

Mr. Willetts: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills for which public service agreement targets of the former (a) Department for Education and Skills and (b) Department of Trade and Industry his Department has responsibility. [147746]

Mr. Denham: The public service agreements are listed as follows.

Improve the basic skills levels of 2.25 million adults between the launch of Skills for Life in 2001 and 2010, with a milestone of 1.5 million in 2007.

Reduce by at least 40 per cent. the number of adults in the workforce who lack NVQ2 or equivalent qualifications by 2010. Working towards this, one million adults in the workforce achieve level 2 between 2003 and 2006.

By 2015, increase participation in higher education towards 50 per cent. of those aged 18 to 30 and also make significant progress year on year towards fair access, and bear down on rates of non-completion.

Improve the relative international performance of the UK research base and increase the overall innovation performance of the UK economy, making continued progress to 2008, including through effective knowledge transfer among universities, research institutions and business.

Educational Institutions: Standards

Mr. Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills which educational institutions did not achieve their benchmark for completion rates in each of the last five years. [149781]

Bill Rammell: The relevant information is taken from table T5 of the Performance Indicators in Higher Education, published by HESA since 2002-03 and by HEFCE until 2001-02. This gives the proportion of UK-domiciled entrants to full-time first degree courses who are projected to neither obtain an award nor transfer to another course. The information is shown in the following tables.

The benchmarks are not targets. They are adjusted sector averages, calculated for each institution for each indicator, to help institutions gauge their own performance.

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Institutions in England which underperformed their benchmark for non-completion in 2003-04
Institution	Proportion projected to neither obtain award nor transfer	Benchmark
The University of Bolton	35.0	23.1
The University of Central Lancashire	21.7	18.4
University of Chester	18.8	17.0
Coventry University	21.7	19.1
University of Derby	24.0	21.7
The University of East London	27.1	25.5
Edge Hill College of Higher Education	21.5	18.8
Goldsmiths College	17.9	15.9
The University of Greenwich	21.8	21.3
Kent Institute of Art and Design	17.5	15.5
Liverpool Hope University	22.5	18.5
London Metropolitan University	27.4	25.5
London South Bank University	27.6	25.4
University of Luton	22.4	20.1
The Manchester Metropolitan University	23.4	20.1
The University of Northampton	21.5	18.4
The University of Northumbria at Newcastle	16.7	16.2
Roehampton University	21.7	17.0
College of St. Mark and St. John	35.8	32.3
St. Mary's College	18.5	16.2
The University of Salford	20.4	18.9
The School of Oriental and African Studies	18.6	14.1
Staffordshire University	20.4	18.6
The University of Sunderland	20.1	17.6
Trinity Laban	17.0	13.9
University of the West of England, Bristol	20.6	16.9
The University of Westminster	21.4	20.8
The University of Wolverhampton	23.9	20.4
University of Worcester	19.5	16.4
Source: “Performance Indicators in Higher Education”, published by HESA

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Institutions in England which underperformed their benchmark for non- completion in 2002-03
Institution	Proportion projected to neither obtain award nor transfer	Benchmark
Bolton Institute of Higher Education	31.9	23.0
The University of Bradford	18.6	18.2
City University	15.4	14.9
Cranfield University	21.3	18.0
Darlington College of Arts	23.0	15.3
University of Derby	27.0	20.9
The University of East Anglia	12.7	11.7
The University of East London	26.0	24.3
Edge Hill College of Higher Education	19.1	18.9
Falmouth College of Arts	17.0	15.1
Goldsmiths College	17.5	15.6
The University of Greenwich	25.0	20.6
The University of Huddersfield	20.0	19.1
Kent Institute of Art and Design	19.5	15.1
Liverpool Hope University College	23.6	17.6
Liverpool John Moores University	22.9	18.0
London South Bank University	25.6	24.3
University of Luton	23.4	18.3
Middlesex University	25.1	21.7
Newman College of HE	18.6	18.4
University College Northampton	18.8	17.9
The Nottingham Trent University	15.4	14.5
The University of Portsmouth	18.9	17.7
Roehampton University	17.4	16.7
St. George's Hospital Medical School	9.5	5.8
St. Mary's College	16.8	15.5
The University of Sheffield	7.8	7.3
Staffordshire University	21.1	18.0
The University of Sunderland	26.8	17.9
Thames Valley University	25.0	21.4
Trinity College of Music	19.7	13.5
The University of Westminster	22.9	20.6
University College Worcester	17.9	15.4
Writtle College	18.9	18.1
Source: “Performance Indicators in Higher Education”, published by HESA

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