§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidelines her Department has issued regarding local education authority expenditure on capital projects. [13176]
§ Mr. Robin SquireNone. It is up to local education authorities to determine local capital expenditure priorities, and to make the best use of the resources available to them in the light of local needs. But LEAs will be aware of the national priority criteria, agreed with them 10 years ago, which the Department uses to calculate credit approvals.