HL Deb 29 June 2000 vol 614 cc84-5WA
Lord Lucas

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether a school with good Information Communication Technology (ICT) facilities but with a need for language laboratories is entitled to spend a Government grant for ICT facilities on language laboratories instead. [HL2976]

Baroness Blackstone

It depends on the condition of the grant, but normally if the grant is for ICT then the expenditure should be confined to ICT. However, if, for example, a school was to use an ICT grant to put ICT facilities into a language laboratory and were then to use that laboratory to teach a range of subjects, we would regard that as being a reasonable use of such funding.