§ Lady Olga MaitlandTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the allocation for drug education in schools in each of the last three years.
§ Mr. ForthMost current expenditure on schools is incurred by local education authorities, either directly or delegated through local management of schools schemes and totals some £15 billion a year. It is for schools and LEAs to determine in the light of local priorities and taking account of advice and guidance available how much of their total budgets to spend on drugs education. Through the grants for education support and training programme funding was made available on a pump-priming basis to support expenditure of £7.3 million in 1991–92 and £5.0 million in 1992–93 on preventive health education and training in schools, including education about drugs. At national level my Department's preventive health education budget supported drugs-related initiatives with grant exceeding £42,000 in 1991–92 and £149,000 in 1992–93. The provisional figure for 1993–94 is £104.000.