§ 15. Sir Roger MoateTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment she has made of the adequacy of her powers to control expenditure on administration by local education authorities. [19183]
§ Mr. Robin SquireIt is for individual local education authorities to determine their own spending priorities within the resources available to them. It is to the local electorate that they must justify their decisions. I expect, however, that they will choose to give priority to frontline services, including schools.