§ Mr. JenkinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much weighting is given to pupil numbers in calculating the education SSA. [67653]
§ Ms Estelle Morris[holding answer 26 January 1999]: Some 81 per cent. of the education SSA related to schools is allocated on the basis of pupil numbers.
§ Mr. JenkinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will make a statement on the possibility of the local authority funding regulations enabling a local education authority to receive funding based on the SSA for education where there are no maintained schools. [67655]
§ Ms Estelle Morris[holding answer 21 January 1999]: The Government have no plans to change the current education SSA system under which most of the national total is allocated on the basis of the number of registered pupils educated at maintained schools.