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Number of defendants of all ages cautioned by offence type in West Yorkshire police force area and the number of defendants of all ages cautioned for sexual offences in England and Wales for the years 2001 to 2005( 1,2)
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
West Yorkshire
Violence against the person	1,109	1,670	2,493	4,277	6,038
Burglary	401	390	346	485	563
Robbery	37	37	29	41	49
Theft and handling stolen goods	2,688	2,423	2,538	3,138	3,635
Fraud and forgery	208	210	189	279	332
Criminal damage	52	76	83	101	149
Drug offences	934	1,271	1,294	1,457	1,674
Other indictable offences	139	165	323	362	520
Summary offences (excluding motoring)	3,474	3,787	3,951	4,743	4,859
Sexual offences	29	44	31	76	85
England and Wales
Sexual offences	1,240	1,203	1,359	1,553	1,761
(1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. Our ref: PQ 151284 and 151285. Source: RDS Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Ministry of Justice.

Innovation, Universities and Skills

Adult Education: Expenditure

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how much has been spent from the public purse on adult education in each of the last five years. [150364]

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Bill Rammell: The figures requested are shown in the following table.

Adult participation funding excluding learner support expenditure
£ millions
	Financial years
	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
19+ Further Education	1,692	1,695	1,882	1,902	2,011
Train to Gain/Employer Training Pilot	n/a	7	33	89	142
19+ Workbased Learning	154	211	213	243	232
Personal and Community Development Learning (PCDL)	153	194	225	237	229
Adults Total	1,999	2,107	2,353	2,471	2,614

Adult Education: Liverpool

Mrs. Ellman: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills (1) what assessment he has made of the effect of changes in the level of funding for non-priority adult education in Liverpool over the past two years; [150770]

(2) what procedure he has put in place to enable him to assess the adequacy of the Learning and Skills Council’s allocation of funds for non-priority adult education in Liverpool. [150772]

Bill Rammell [holding answer 19 July 2007]: We have increased public investment in further education by 48 per cent. in real terms between 1997-98 and 2005-06 and funding for adult education has increased by 7 per cent. between 2005-06 and 2007-08.

In October 2005 the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) published “Priorities for Success” which set out our funding strategy for 2006-07 and 2007-08 and was updated in October 2006 with the publication of the LSC’s Annual Statement of Priorities. The strategy set out our funding priorities and in line with our Skills Strategy focused public funding on helping adults to develop the skills they will need for sustained employment and further progression in learning.

The LSC has worked with providers across the country including in Liverpool to align provision to meet these priorities. Where providers have previously delivered large volumes of short courses and other lower priority activity then this has resulted in significant shifts of funding towards more substantive programmes that meet national priorities. In these circumstances the LSC have looked at the extent to which provision can be aligned in a single year taking into account historical levels of delivery and the needs of the local community.

In terms of provision outside of these priorities we have safeguarded £210 million for personal and community development learning, including leisure learning in both 2006-07 and 2007-08. We also recognise the need to ensure that we have sufficient provision at lower levels to support progression through to higher level qualifications and we will be supporting this activity through the Foundation Learning Tier.

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Adult Education: Qualifications

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many people have passed qualifications on adult education courses in each of the last five years; and to what level. [150437]

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Bill Rammell: The numbers of successes and success rates by level for adult Further Education and Work Based Learning are shown in the following tables. Similar information is not centrally collated for the other strands of adult education.

Successes and success rates in LSC funded FE provision for adults (19+)
Qualification type	Successes (thousands) 2004/05					Success rates (percentage)
	2001/02	2001/02	2002/03	2003/04	2005/06	2001/02	2001/02	2002/03	2003/04	2005/06
Long(1) courses
Level 1	296	401	399	378	331	50	59	59	61	64
Level 2	258	261	262	280	288	49	54	54	60	65
Full Level 2 learning aims	n/a	64	65	83	99	n/a	54	55	60	66
Not full level 2 learning aims	n/a	197	197	198	188	n/a	54	54	60	65
Level 3	185	170	173	176	178	50	53	54	58	63
Level 4, 5 and HE	11	13	7	10	12	38	47	59	59	62
Level not specified	192	66	72	79	66	62	68	63	72	76
All Long(1) courses	948	917	913	923	875	52	57	57	61	65
All Short(2) courses	1,832	2,124	2,131	2,116	1,637	75	82	82	83	85
All Qualifications	2,773	3,023	3,044	3,040	2,513	65	72	72	75	77
(1) Long courses are of expected length of 24 weeks or more (2) Short courses are of expected length of less than 24 weeks

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