§ Ms. RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give details of the amount and date of any payments so far made by his Department to the Haberdashers' Company in respect of the costs of planning for the establishment of a Haberdashers' Aske's city technology college; and what further expenses in this respect he has agreed to meet.
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§ Mr. MacGregorPayments of £37,732 were made to the Haberdashers' Company in February 1990, and payments of £16,982 have been authorised this month to date. I have so far agreed to pay the costs of a project director, educational consultants and legal fees in relation to the forthcoming establishment of a CTC company.
§ Ms. RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he intends to accept the proposal by the Haberdashers' Company, in a letter dated 30 November 1989, that notwithstanding any future discontinuance of the proposed Haberdashers' Aske's city technology college, no obligation to repay capital grants should be imposed on the Haberdashers' CTC Company so long as the leased property in question continues to be used for educational purposes; and how this proposal accords with the provisions of section 105(5) of the Education Reform Act 1988.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe terms of the funding agreement made between myself and the Haberdashers' Aske's City Technology College Company in relation to the establishment of the Haberdashers' Aske's city technology college will be in conformity with section 105(5) of the Education Reform Act 1988.
§ Ms. RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether the Haberdashers' CTC Company has yet been formed for the purposes of establishing a city technology college on the sites of the present Haberdashers' Aske's schools in Deptford.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe Haberdashers' CTC Company has not yet been formed. I expect that a company will be formed by the early summer of this year, subject to the completion of the necessary processes.