1. To help build a competitive economy and inclusive society by: creating opportunities for eveyone to develop their learning; releasing potential in people to make the most of themselves; and achieving excellence in standards of education and levels of skills

Loans to voluntary aided schools; provision relating to former grant-maintained schools; the Assisted Places Scheme; music and ballet schools; support for the Academy of Gifted and Talented Youth; City Technology Colleges; the provision of education for under-fives; the school curriculum and its assessment; childcare initiatives; education action zones; modernising the teaching profession and other educational services and initiatives; initiatives to write-off student loans to teachers in England and Wales; class size reductions; initiatives for three year olds; school and local education authority intervention; specialist schools; excellence in cities and other specific grants to local authorities including those through the Standards Fund; grants-in-aid to the National College of School Leadership, the Teacher Training Agency, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority; support for the Centre for Information Learning Technology; capital grants to schools including those through the Standards Fund; the youth service; careers guidance and services including through the Connexions Service; higher, further and other education provision and initiatives, including the Higher Education Innovation Fund, the Science and Research Investment Fund and Higher Education Business Fellows; payments for education in prisons and other custodial institutions; student grants; the payment of access funds and education maintenance allowances; the provision of training and assessment programmes for young people and adults; initiatives to improve education, training and qualifications arrangements and access to these; the promotion of enterprise; teacher training initiatives; payments to the Department for Work and Pensions to support the UK subscription to the International Labour Organisation and other international educational programmes; Millennium Volunteers; the payment of certain fees to the Home Office; loans and grants to the University for Industry; payments related to the establishment of the Sector Skills Development Agency and Sector Skills Councils; payments to the Department of Trade and Industry in connection with the Regional Development Agencies and the London Development Agency; loans and residual costs of the winding up of the Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs); the distribution of residual TEC assets, returned to the Secretary of State under the terms of the TEC licence, to local voluntary, community and business support organisations; the resource consequences of loans to students, reimbursement of fees for qualifying European Community students and postgraduate awards; mandatory student awards and their administration; student loans and the cost of sales of the student loans debt; grants-in-aid to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Learning and Skills Council, the Adult Learning Inspectorate, Investors in People UK, the Student Loans Company and Sector Skills Development Agency; grant-in-aid, grants and working capital loans to the General Teaching Council; the Department’s own administration and research and payments for the administration of teachers' pensions; information and publicity services; initiatives and programmes supported by the European Union, the Capital Modernisation Fund and with other Government Departments under the Invest to Save Budget; compensation payments to teachers and staff of certain institutions and teachers' medical fees; and associated non-cash items.

2. Promoting the physical, intellectual and social development of babies and young children through Sure Start

Promoting the physical, intellectual and social development of babies and young children; supporting families and communities; evaluating the programme; the administration of the Sure Start Unit; and associated non-cash items.

3. Tackling child poverty and social exclusion by helping vulnerable children and young people, and their families, to break the cycle of deprivation and disadvantage through the Children’s Fund

Funding preventative services, primarily for 5—13 year olds, through local partnerships in line with the objectives of the Children’s Fund; funding voluntary groups countering social exclusion and poverty amongst children and young people in line with the objectives of the Children’s Fund; supporting voluntary groups and other organisations to promote and facilitate consultation, participation and representation of children and young people including the UK Youth Parliament; monitoring and evaluating the Children’s Fund; administering the Children and Young People’s Unit; and associated non-cash items.

1. Teachers' pensions

Superannuation allowances and gratuities, and other related expenditure, in respect of teachers, and the widows, widowers, children and dependants of deceased teachers, and for premature retirement compensation payments made to members of the Teachers' Pensions Scheme and on behalf of their employers.