§ Mr. Hilary BennTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much funding was allocated to Leeds Local Education Authority in the 341W financial years 1996–97 to 1999–2000 for (a) reduction in infant class sizes, for revenue and capital costs, (b) national grid for learning, (c) literacy, (d) numeracy, (e) books for schools, (f) truancy and behaviour measures, (g) school security, (h) improving school effectiveness, (i) excellence
£ 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–100 Infant class size—capital n/a n/a 235,000 725,000 Infant class size—revenue n/a n/a 500,000 1,369,000 National grid for learning1 n/a n/a 1,700,000 1,350,000 Literacy1,3 n/a 210,000 767,842 789,389 Numeracy 1,4 n/a n/a 16,600 750,990 Other literacy and numeracy1,5 n/a n/a 307,906 712,356 Books for schools1 n/a 301,144 332,983 665,965 Truancy and Behaviour1 106,000 506,200 604,500 946,025 School security1 n/a 300,500 300,783 305,986 School effectiveness1,6 1,978,500 1,932,000 2,158,116 3,282,818 Excellence in cities7 n/a n/a n/a 2,036,852 New deal for schools8 n/a 1,402,000 1,909,000 4,112,000 Voluntary aided capital 163,000 376,000 315,000 1,089,000 Energy efficiency n/a n/a 220,000 n/a Education SSA9 252,509,000 263,321,000 278,662,000 292,441,000 Music1 n/a n/a n/a 245,000 1 GEST/Standard fund includes both central and local government contributions. 1990–2000 allocations not yet final. 2 Allocated through a programme account, not GEST. 3 Literacy includes the summer school and key stage 3 intervention programmes. 4 Numeracy includes the summer school programme. 5 Other literacy and numeracy includes year 6 booster classes and playing for success. Expenditure on each subject is for local decision and therefore it can not be disaggregated. 6 School effectiveness grant became school improvement grant from 1999–2000. 7 Excellence in cities funding is broken down into £47,630 start up costs, £1,363,727 learning mentors and learning support units and £625,495 for gifted and talented children (excludes other national programmes such as beacon and specialist schools). 8 The new deal capital figures represent the LEA's total allocation announced in each year—in some cases, these may be spent over several years. 9 To aid comparability, the education SSA figure for 1997–98 has had nursery voucher funding added. The SSA figure excluding nursery voucher funding was £254 million