HC Deb 29 January 1997 vol 289 cc259-60W
31. Mr. Jacques Arnold

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what steps she is taking to ensure that the increase in the educational component of the standard spending assessment for 1997–98 is passed in its entirety by local education authorities to schools. [11759]

Mr. Robin Squire

LEAs will have an extra £633 million. Ministers have consistently urged them to deliver this to classrooms. Authorities that choose to do otherwise will need to justify their decisions to local schools, parents and teachers.