HC Deb 03 March 1989 vol 148 c338W
Mr. Latham

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will set up a central fund administered by his Department to assist grant maintained schools with remissions of costs incurred on school expeditions, where it is no longer legally possible to make formal charges to parents, such a fund to match the remissions proposed in such circumstances by the local education authority.

Mrs. Rumbold

Grant-maintained schools will receive in annual maintenance grant funding at the level they could have expected from their former maintaining authority, including an apportionment of the authority's central costs. This will include an apportionment of any provision made by the authority for remission of costs incurred on school expeditions.