§ Mr. BaldryTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the amount of credit approvals made to each local education authority in December for capital works on school buildings. [26525]
§ Mr. ByersMy letter of 16 December to all English MPs listed capital allocations to local education authorities for 1998–99. I am placing a copy in the Library. These allocations were the first stage in a process that will commit a total of £922 million in central Government support for building projects at maintained schools in 1998–99, which represents an increase of 37 per cent. over original plans.
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§ Mr. BaldryTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the amount allocated to each local education authority of the £1.36 billion announced in last year's financial statement for the repair and modernisation of school buildings. [26713]
§ Mr. ByersInitial allocations of the £83 million available for English local education authorities for 1997–98 will be supporting projects worth £115 million and are as follows:
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LEA name Allocation (£000s) Barking and Dagenham 210 Barnet 97 Barnsley 500 Bath and North East Somerset 1,007 Bedfordshire 326 Berkshire 761 Bexley 487 Birmingham 1,192 Bolton 381 Bournemouth 106 Bradford 1,045 Brent 461 Brighton and Hove 213 Bristol 619 Bromley 251 Buckinghamshire 564 Bury 343 Calderdale 377 Cambridgeshire 598 Camden 177 Cheshire 971 City 0 Cornwall 1,018 Coventry 668 Croydon 195 Cumbria 598 Darlington 320 Derby City 346 Derbyshire 1,125 Devon 1,017 Doncaster 419 Dorset 647 Dudley 270 Durham 755 Ealing 123 East Riding of Yorkshire 665 East Sussex 843 Enfield 344 Essex 1,170 Gateshead 352 Gloucestershire 434 Greenwich 306 Hackney 1,250 Hammersmith and Fulham 300 Hampshire 1,572 Haringey 426 Harrow 88 Hartlepool 412 Havering 337 Hereford and Worcester 733 Hertfordshire 620 Hillingdon 310 Hounslow 341 Hull 590 Isle of Scilly 0 Isle of Wight 232 Islington 295 Kensington and Chelsea 244 Kent 1,159 Kingston 456 Kirklees 660
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LEA name Allocation (£000s) Knowsley 800 Lambeth 261 Lancashire 2,006 Leeds 1,402 Leicester City 589 Leicestershire 677 Lewisham 705 Lincolnshire 505 Liverpool 1,275 Luton 288 Manchester 1,448 Merton 360 Middlesborough 300 Milton Keynes 271 Newcastle 487 Newham 482 Norfolk 1,482 North East Lincolnshire 328 North Lincolnshire 143 North Somerset 450 North Tyneside 406 North Yorkshire 962 Northamptonshire 711 Northumberland 541 Nottinghamshire 2,270 Oldham 784 Oxfordshire 1,030 Poole 241 Portsmouth 210 Redbridge 207 Redcar and Cleveland 337 Richmond 317 Rochdale 585 Rotherham 529 Rutland 51 Salford 478 Sandwell 808 Sefton 836 Sheffield 1,273 Shropshire 185 Solihull 364 Somerset 487 South Gloucestershire 412 South Tyneside 536 Southampton 317 Southwark 381 St. Helens 663 Staffordshire 1,387 Stockport 967 Stockton on Tees 531 Stoke on Trent 650 Suffolk 1,065 Sunderland 719 Surrey 1,120 Sutton 602 Swindon 275 Tameside 462 Tower Hamlets 928 Trafford 425 Wakefield 600 Walsall 682 Waltham Forest 507 Wandsworth 135 Warwickshire 703 West Sussex 812 Westminster 312 Wigan 720 Wiltshire 1,144 Wirral 375 Wolverhampton 412 York 180 We are currently considering bids from English LEAs for the next tranche of New Deal for Schools funds. £250 million will be available for projects beginning in 1998–99.
The total of £1.3 billion announced in the Budget included £116 million allocated to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland, £65 million allocated to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales and £34 million allocated to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northe Ireland. They have made separate arrangements for distribution to their local education authorities.