§ Mrs. Ann TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will update the table given in his answer of 6 November 1992,Official Report, column 513, giving the number of copies distributed and the cost in each case of the booklets (a) "School Governors, How to Become a Grant-maintained School", (b) "Grant-maintained Schools—Questions Parents Ask", (c) "Grant-maintained Schools—What it Means for Stafl'', (d) "Grant-maintained Schools—Questions Staff Ask", (e) "Grant-maintained Schools—Experiences During the First Year" and (f) "Education into the Next Century".
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe total numbers of booklets which have been printed to fulfil expected demand and the current costs of producing each booklet are as follows:
Total printed Current cost per booklet £ (a) 300,000 since April 1992 0.23 (b) 1,635,005 since March 1990 0.08 (c) 193,000 November 1990—September 1992 20.09 (d) 225,000 since September 1992 0.07 (e) 470,000 since June 1991 0.09 (f) 2,750,000 since August 1992 10.0592 1 Estimate 2 Booklet is no longer produced; it has been superseded by (d). This was the cost when it was last produced.
§ Mrs. Ann TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list, for each local education authority, the date when his Department received a local management of schools budget statement made under section 42 of the Education Reform Act 1988 for the purpose of calculating grant-maintained schools' budgets for the financial year 1993–94, the date when an22W acknowledgement was sent, if that budget statement formed a satisfactory basis for the calculation of annual maintenance grant for the grant-maintained schools in the authority's area, and the date by which he expects that his Department will have informed (a) 30 per cent., (b) 40 per cent., (c) 50 per cent., (d) 60 per cent., (e) 70 per cent., (f) 80 per cent., (g) 90 per cent. and (h) 100 per cent. of grant-maintained schools of their final annual maintenance grant budget figure.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe table shows the date the section 42 statement was received from LEAs with grant-maintained schools within their area and the date receipt was acknowledged by the LMS unit of the Department. LEAs were advised in February that provided they submitted complete and final budget details by 31 March such data would be used to calculate annual maintenance grant. Information from the following LEAs did not meet the required standard:
- Bromley
- Hounslow
- Humberside
- Liverpool
- Newham
- Oxfordshire
- Somerset
- Tameside
- Warwickshire
Certain points on Leicestershire's budget statement remain to be clarified before a decision can be taken on whether it provides a satisfactory basis on which to determine annual maintenance grant.
By 30 June 61 per cent. of grants had been finalised. I expect 70 per cent. to have been finalised by 23 July; 80 per cent. by 31 July; 95 per cent. by the end of August; and the remainder in September, although it is possible that one or two exceptional cases might take a little longer.
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Local Education Authority Date Section 42 Budget Statement Received Date Receipt Acknowledged Avon 31 March 1993 7 April 1993 Barnet 29 March 1993 31 March 1993 Bedfordshire 31 March 1993 31 March 1993 Berkshire *31 March 1993 31 March 1993 Bexley 30 March 1993 7 May 1993 Birmingham 25 March 1993 7 May 1993 Bolton 12 March 1993 29 March 1993 Bradford 31 March 1993 14 April 1993 Brent 10 March 1993 29 March 1993 Bromley *31 March 1993 31 March 1993 Buckinghamshire 26 March 1993 19 April 1993 Calderdale 29 March 1993 7 May 1993 Cambridgeshire 1 March 1993 29 March 1993 Cheshire 29 March 1993 7 May 1993 Croydon *31 March 1993 7 May 1993 Cumbria 30 March 1993 7 May 1993 Derbyshire 26 March 1993 31 March 1993 Devon 31 March 1993 19 April 1993 Dorset 29 March 1993 7 May 1993 Dudley *24 March 1993 29 March 1993 Ealing 25 March 1993 31 March 1993 Essex 31 March 1993 7 May 1993 Gloucestershire 31 March 1993 31 March 1993 Hammersmith and Fulham 31 March 1993 31 March 1993 Hampshire 31 March 1993 31 March 1993 Havering *29 March 1993 18 May 1993 Hereford and Worcestershire 30 March 1993 7 May 1993 Hertfordshire *31 March 1993 5 April 1993 Hillingdon 31 March 1993 7 May 1993 Hounslow 1 April 1993 7 May 1993 Humberside *30 April 1993 11 May 1993 Kensington and Chelsea *30 March 1993 7 May 1993 Kent *31 March 1993 31 March 1993
Local Education Authority Date Section 42 Budget Statement Received Date Receipt Acknowledged Kingston-upon-Thames *29 March 1993 7 May 1993 Kirklees 31 March 1993 7 May 1993 Lambeth *31 March 1993 31 March 1993 Lancashire 26 March 1993 31 March 1993 Leicestershire *29 March 1993 7 May 1993 Lewisham 31 March 1993 7 May 1993 Lincolnshire 26 March 1993 7 May 1993 Liverpool 27 May 1993 28 May 1993 Newham 5 April 1993 7 May 1993 Norfolk 31 March 1993 7 May 1993 Northamptonshire 31 March 1993 7 May 1993 Nottinghamshire 25 March 1993 7 May 1993 Oxfordshire 5 April 1993 14 April 1993 Rochdale 30 March 1993 31 March 1993 Sandwell 29 March 1993 7 May 1993 Sheffield 29 March 1993 31 March 1993 Shropshire 24 March 1993 7 May 1993 Solihull 30 March 1993 7 May 1993 Somerset *13 April 1993 30 April 1993 Southwark 31 March 1993 7 May 1993 Staffordshire 29 March 1993 31 March 1993 Surrey 31 March 1993 7 May 1993 Sutton 30 March 1993 7 May 1993 Tameside 14 May 1993 17 May 1993 Tower Hamlets 31 March 1993 7 May 1993 Trafford 29 March 1993 30 March 1993 Walsall 29 March 1993 31 March 1993 Waltham Forest 29 March 1993 7 May 1993 Wandsworth *31 March 1993 7 May 1993 Warwickshire 7 April 1993 15 April 1993 Wiltshire 29 March 1993 7 May 1993 Wirral *31 March 1993 14 May 1993 Wolverhampton 29 March 1993 31 March 1993 * The date of receipt given in each case is the date when a budget statement was first received. Where these dates are marked with an asterisk, revised statements or parts of statements have been received subsequently.