§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will express in both cash and constant price terms the amount of capital allocated, in terms of consent to borrow, to local authorities for schools buildings in every year since 1979.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonLocal authorities in Scotland receive an allocation of consent to incur liability to meet capital expenditure on educational buildings. Within this overall level of consent they are free to228W local education authority area in Scotland in September 1994.
§ Mr. LangThe information requested for September 1994 is not yet available. The latest available information is given in the following table.
determine which educational building projects will proceed. They are also free to transfer consent between certain other capital programmes and to augment their consent levels in other ways, for example by utilising resources raised from the disposal of assets or by funding capital projects from current revenue. Information on the level of the total capital allocations for education, and the assumed schools element included in them, is given in the table.
Total allocation for educational building Assumed schools element At cash At 1994–95 At cash At 1994–95 Year prices prices prices prices 1979–80 53,605 134,240 49,810 124,736 1980–81 56,678 119,959 53,813 113,895 1981–82 62,213 120,059 59,988 115,765 1982–83 53,669 96,686 49,579 89,317 1983–84 45,755 78,775 40,940 70,485 1984–85 40,310 66,080 36,623 60,036 1985–86 50,275 78,132 42,950 66,748 1986–87 47,480 71,628 39,785 60,019 1987–88 53,175 76,164 44,279 63,422 1988–89 61,315 82,315 52,069 69,902 1989–90 65,555 82,261 54,390 68,251 1990–91 62,619 72,748 52,055 60,475 1991–92 73,291 80,112 61,049 66,731 1992–93 85,647 90.033 75,355 79,214 1993–94 78,489 80,059 75,510 77,020 1994–95 71,489 71,489 68,510 68,510 Note:
1. The total allocations for educational building include elements for further education from 1979–80 to 1992–93 and for community education from 1985–86