§ Mr. Ashdownasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, further to his reply to the hon. Member for Yeovil on 16 February, Official Report, column 443, concerning local education authorities' allocations of prescribed capital expenditure on schools for 1987–88, when the formula used in such allocations was last revised or updated; if he will place copies of the current formula in the Library; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe formula has been in use in broadly the same form since the 1981–82 allocations. It involves the distribution of resources in part pro rata to those elements of LEAs' planned schools expenditure which are not allowed for elsewhere in the allocations methodology; and in part pro rata to the incidence of substandard school accommodation in each authority's area.