School Standards and Effectiveness Unit

HC Deb 27 October 1998 vol 318 cc100-1W

Mrs. May

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many staff are currently employed in the School Standards and Effectiveness Unit; and what is the budgeted cost of publications issued by the unit in the current financial year. [56846]

Ms Estelle Morris

As of 30 September 1998 there were 137 staff employed in the Standards and Effectiveness Unit (SEU).

The total budgeted cost of SEU publications in the current financial year is £3.8 million, of which £2 million relates to the implementation of the Literacy and Numeracy Strategies in primary schools.