§ Mr. GorrieTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the total of(a) GAE, (b) AEF and (c) actual expenditure for each Scottish council for each of the last 10 years for (i) provision in respect of primary schools, secondary schools, special schools and support services, (ii) nursery education and (iii) community education; and in each case what is the budgeted figure for 1998–99. [36631]
§ Mr. MacdonaldInformation on each Scottish local authority's GAE assessment for all services, including the relevant Education sub-services, is published by The Scottish Office annually in "Grant Aided Expenditure" (the Green Book). Copies are available in the House of Commons Library. (In 1988–89 and 1989–90 GAEs were known as Assessments of Relative Expenditure Need).
AEF is a block grant and is not attributable to specific services.
Actual expenditure figures for all services are published annually by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) in the "Rating Review Actual Income and Expenditure". For the years 1996–97 and 1997–98, the latest estimated information available is in the CIPFA publication "Rating Review Estimates of Income and Expenditure". Both publications are available in the House of Commons Library.