§ Ms ChurchTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many information technology projects have been undertaken since 1992 and are planned for the coming year, in cost bands of 1,000,000. [1905]
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe number of information technology projects undertaken since 1992 is:
will help such schools strengthen their links with the business world and enable sponsors to take part in governance to the mutual benefit of school and sponsor. Similar arrangements exist for grant-maintained and voluntary-aided schools. We would expect a direction to be made only after a request by the governing body of a school designated as a specialist school to change its instrument of government to include sponsor governors. No financial arrangements would need to be agreed prior to a decision to make a directive.