HC Deb 21 July 2000 vol 354 cc331-2W
Mr. Steen

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what money has been provided for Public-Private Partnership initiatives to all South West local education authorities in each of the last two years. [131581]

Jacqui Smith

In 1998–99, local education authorities in the South West bid successfully for a total of £4.12 million New Deal for Schools funding to support Public-Private Partnerships. In 1999–2000, South West local education authorities received £3.28 million from the same source for Public-Private Partnerships, plus £14.2 million in PFI credits for a schools Private Finance Initiative scheme.

Mr. Steen

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list those schools that have received money for Public-Private Partnership initiatives in each of the last two years. [131606]

Jacqui Smith

120 and twenty schools in 1998–99, and 230 schools in 1999–2000, are benefiting from projects supported by the Private Finance Initiative. In addition, we are supporting a number of Public-Private Partnership schemes through the New Deal for Schools, in which the following schools are benefiting:

1998–99

  • Canterbury High School
  • Foxton Primary School, Cambridgeshire
  • Hartsbourne JMI School, Hertfordshire
  • Homelands Primary School, Torquay
  • Weald of Kent Girl's Grammar School
  • Westlands Bilateral School, Torquay

1999–2000

  • Brays Grove School, Harlow
  • Collegiate High School, Blackpool
  • Cooper Perry Primary School, Staffordshire
  • Culloden Primary School, Tower Hamlets
  • Downview Primary School, West Sussex
  • East Wittering Primary School, West Sussex
  • Ferndown School, Dorset
  • Highweek Primary School, Newton Abbot
  • Hreod Parkway Schools, Swindon
  • Littlehampton Community School
  • Mark Hall School, Harlow
  • Passmores School, Harlow
  • Sir Graham Balfour Secondary School, Staffordshire
  • Stewards School, Harlow
  • Whitehall Junior School, Hillingdon
  • William Beaumont High School, Warrington.

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