§ Mr. DafisTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish details of the expenditure incurred by the Welsh Office to inform schools regarding application for grant-maintained status.
§ Sir Wyn RobertsThe day-to-day costs involved in providing schools with information about grant-maintained status are met out of the Department's running costs and it is not possible to disaggregate them.
189WIt is, however, possible to identify two specific initiatives as they involved the use of outside contractors. In October 1992 three booklets on the grant-maintained arrangements were issued to all schools in Wales. The cost of producing and distributing these was £23,900. In October and November last year three conferences on grant-maintained status were arranged for heads and governors of schools. The cost of these has still to be finalised.