Colleges, commercial and charitable providers and other institutions provide an annual funding return to the EFA which is recorded and held currently in Excel spreadsheets. This data consists of outturn information including the number of students actually recruited and the funding relating to them. For commercial and charitable providers (CCPs) funded on contract this also holds a variance against students and funding actually allocated in that academic year, and the reconciliation values for the payments to CCPs. Grant-in-aid institutions are not usually subject to funding reconciliation adjustments to their allocation payments.
